Background Facts Saugus Union School District is an elementary pre-school through 6th grade district in the Santa Clarita Valley. We have an operating budget of approximately 110 million. We have 10,350 students housed in 15 schools. Our enrollment has been steadily declining over the past four years. We are the administrative unit for the Special Education Local Planning Area (SELPA). ...

“School district board members, administrators, teachers, employees, parents and community leaders acting as individual entities lobbying the state for education funding that maintains the current mandated system.”   The SCV Education Coalition is composed of educational leaders, teachers and employees from the four elementary school districts, Castaic, Newhall, Saugus and Sulphur Springs and from the William S. Hart High School ...

Protect State Funding For Domestic Violence Programs ISSUEThe Domestic Violence Center of the Santa Clarita Valley, the area’s only agency serving a 250 square mile area, is facing significant challenges again this year as the Governor Schwarzenegger has failed to include funding for California’s domestic violence programs in the 2010/11 State budget. As a consequence of this action, the Santa ...

The Sacramento road trip is consistently helpful to College of the Canyons, and the trip last spring was particularly timely and useful. Meetings with legislators, the Legislative Analyst Office (LAO), the Economic Development Division (EDD), the Employment Training Panel (ETP), and the California Workforce Investment Board were highly productive. As a result of these meetings, the College is working with ...

ISSUE #1 – Impact of State Budget Cuts The Hart District’s State revenue has been slashed by $20 million, resulting in increased class size, less counseling support, reduced intervention programs, proposed reduction in instructional days, salary and benefit reductions for both certificated and classified personnel, and lay-offs for classified positions, handicapping our ability to maintain a quality educational program. Requested ...

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Assemblyman Smyth’s Chief of Staff Ryan O’Neill and Aracely Campa, Aracely Campa, Lead Consultant on Water for Assembly Member Anna Caballero. (L-R: Michele Jenkins, Jeannie Atkins, Pam Halaby, Joan MacGregor, Jeri Seratti-Goldman) Sharon Bronson & Arif Halaby (L-R: Sue Reynolds, Naomi Carmona-Morshead, Eric Harnish) (L-R: RJ Kelly & BJ Atkins) (L-R: Joan MacGregor, Ed Masterson, Michele Jenkins) (L-R: Ann Unger, ...

Angelo, Chris – President, CEO, Stay Green, Inc.Arnold, Fred – Past President, California Association of Mortgage BrokersAtkins, Jeannie – Atkins Environmental HELP, Inc. Atkins, BJ – Board President, Newhall County Water District & CLWA Board MemberBall, Chris – President, Santa Clarita Builders ExchangeBauccio, Lois – President, Executive Director, Child & Family Center FoundationBerger, Michael – Board of Trustees, Santa Clarita ...

March 22, 2010 Arrive in Sacramento at 3:30 p.m. 3:50 – 4:05 p.m. – Assemblyman Smyth – Opening Remarks 4:05 – 4:20 p.m. – Open Remarks from Bus Tour 4:20 – 4:50pm – Group meets w/ Aracely Campa, Lead Consultant on Water for Assembly Member Anna Caballero, (Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee & lead author of comprehensive water package). 7:30 ...

By Larry Mankin On March 23-24, 2009 I got to once again see just how important it is to have a community plan, and to have a dedicated group of community leaders willing to go the extra mile to share a community’s vision leaders in Sacramento.   I was fortunate enough to travel to Sacramento with seventy other SCV delegates ...