To help cut $6.5 million from next year’s budget, the Hollister
School District Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to send the second
layoff notice to 71 teachers within the district.
To help cut $6.5 million from next year’s budget, the Hollister School District Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to send the second layoff notice to 71 teachers within the district.
The first notice came in March telling those employees they might be laid off. After two months of deliberating and hearing teachers’ reasoning why they should stay, the administration agreed to go ahead with their cuts proposed in March, board President Dee Brown said.
The board of trustees plans to rehire some of the teachers, Brown said. The district must wait until the governor’s revised budget is released and the teachers announce retirements.
The district still will make cuts, but the hope is all 71 teachers won’t be let go, Brown said.
“It won’t end up being that many at the end,” Brown said. “But I don’t know how many.”
The school district is offering teachers incentives to retire, hoping to save some money, Brown said. The district will give a retiree a salary incentive based on time of service and age.
Doing so would allow the district to rehire the less-expensive and younger teachers that were sent layoff notices.
“It’s a good thing for everyone,” Brown said. “It allows someone in the middle of their career to still work.”
