5 April—People who subscribe to Region 20 emails will have received a “Board Chair Communication” yesterday, a link to the telling presentation the RSD 20 BOE made at Thursday night’s hearing about dealing with the budget deficit. Litchfield.bz reported on the hearing yesterday. Anyone’s guess if it will be covered in the Hearst Sunday Republican.

While the necessity of extraordinary measures to undo the damage caused by irresponsible budgeting was acknowledged by everybody at the hearing, a number of people commented on what one speaker called “too many chiefs in the house.” And they were absolutely right.

Here’s the direct link to the slide show:

https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1951/RSD_20/5502888/UPDATEDReferendum_Presentation_-bonding__4.3.25__.pptx__2_.pdf

In the last slide, you’ll get an idea of some of the savings that could be achieved by eliminating positions of superfluous administrators and other staff—including classroom aides and certified teachers. Superfluous is the operative word. They’re not necessary, just costly.