UPDATE: In place of a committee, this has turned into a public workshop. The last workshop is Thursday, Feb. 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Continuation School building located in north western parking lot of Frazier Mountain High School (Falcon Way, off of Peace Valley Road in Lebec).

By Patric Hedlund

Budget committee forms

Three community volunteers are needed for a budget committee being assembled by El Tejon Unified School District Supt. Rodney Wallace. At the December 11 ETUSD meeting, Wallace said he wants to see the committee get started by January. The group will also include two ETUSD trustees, two union…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Left: The new El Tejon Unified School District Governing Board for 2015 looked energetic at the December 11 meeting: (l-r) new members Barbara Newbold and Misty Johnston took their oaths of office, then joined Vickie Mullen, Lark Shillig and John Fleming as trustees. ETUSD Superintendent Rodney Wallace joined them for this portrait.

Left: The board voted unanimously to accept the contract with the teachers’ union. Above: Dennis Franey of the Kern County Superintendent of Schools office said ETUSD’s declining enrollment means revenue loss and budget challenges ahead.

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