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LIBRARY DAYS
STATE BUDGET
RUSD
faces
$1.7M
in cuts
PHOTOS BY FRANK PEREZ
Fariad Ali teaches a plein-air art class on Saturday during the A.K. Smiley Public Library’s sixth annual Library Days.
ADULTS AND KIDS
EXPLORE ART
F
amilies braved the soaring temperatures Saturday for the sixth annual
Library Days event at A.K. Smiley
Public Library.
Everyone was encouraged to “Be Artistic” at the event, with a special outdoor
painting class for grown-ups and arts and
crafts for kids.
Each year, organizers plan the event
to show off a different facet of the library.
This year, recognizing the importance of
the visual arts, stained glass artist Tom
Medlicott spoke about his work, some of
which is featured at the library.
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Stained glass artist Tom Medlicott talks about his work.
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School district says reductions for
2017-18 won’t affect classrooms
and will be less than expected
By Kristina Hernandez
[email protected], @TheFactsKris on Twitter
REDLANDS » Redlands Unified will face $1.7 million in reductions for the 2017-18 school year,
school officials have announced.
None of the cuts, however, will affect classrooms, said Bernie Cavanagh, assistant superintendent of business services. The reductions
go into effect in the new fiscal year beginning
July 1.
The school district anticipated budget cuts
earlier this year following the release of Gov.
Jerry Brown’s preliminary budget for 2017-18,
which had allocated less funding for education
due to lower-than-previously projected state revenues. At the same time the school district anticipated receiving less money from the state, it
had to plan for an increase in its yearly contributions on behalf of employees to state retirement funds.
District officials announced they would take a
“proactive measure” in the spring and developed
a plan to close a then-projected $3 million gap
for 2017-18 and a forecasted $4 million shortfall
for the 2018-19 school year. That plan included
the adoption of a list outlining potential cuts, adopted by the Board of Education in May.
“I do like to see some of the positive changes after the May revise” of the governor’s budget, board
member Cristina Puraci said Tuesday before the
board approved the 2017-18 budget unanimously.
Cuts for the coming school year have not been
specified, but the plan approved by the school
board included a tiered list of cuts and cost-saving strategies: Among the first initiatives the
RUSD » PAGE 4
POLITICS
Will IE congressional districts swing to Democrats in 2018?
By Jeff Horseman
[email protected]
@Jeff Horseman on Twitter
Inside graphic: The percentage gap between Republican and Democratic voters
has narrowed slightly. PAGE A7
To talk about the 2018 midterm elections is to hear of a possible backlash
against Donald Trump, carrying Democrats to a House of Representatives majority.
While Democrats hope that blue wave
washes over Republican districts in Orange County, it’s not yet forecast to reach
the Inland Empire, even though the tra-
ditionally Republican region has turned
purple.
“In a remote scenario, we’d have to
be talking about a tsunami,” said David
Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, which studies and handicaps congressional races.
With Trump’s popularity at record
lows and the party outside the White
House typically gaining seats in midterm
elections, Democrats are hopeful they can
pick up the 24 seats they need to command the House.
A launching pad toward that goal
is Orange County, where four GOP incumbents — Darrell Issa of Vista, Dana
Rohrabacher of Costa Mesa, Ed Royce
of Fullerton and Mimi Walters of Irvine
— represent districts carried by Hillary
Clinton in November as she became the
first Democrat to win Orange County
DISTRICTS » PAGE 5
“Both parties love to
talk about challenging
in districts everywhere,
but once the reality of
limited resources sets in,
strategists must look for
the most critical races to
invest time and money.”
— Nathan Gonzales, publisher of Inside
Elections
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