21 LEUSD Jobs Saved Under Tentative Agreement

Twenty-one classified jobs in the Lake Elsinore Unified School District have been spared from the chopping block.

LEUSD spokesman Mark Dennis announced Friday evening that the California School Employees Association Chapter #598 and the district’s bargaining teams have reached a tentative agreement.

The agreement, which still requires ratification, calls for all CSEA members to take nine unpaid furlough days during fiscal year 2012-13. The furloughs will save the district $1,045,467, according to the announcement.

The agreement also states seven vacant non-teaching positions in the district won’t be filled during the upcoming year. The vacancies will save the district $392,753, Dennis announced.

With today’s tentative agreement, however, 21 of those pink slips will not be handed out.

The majority of the remaining job cuts are school bus drivers and transportation support personnel. for the 2012-13 school year after Governor Jerry Brown proposed to cut funding for the program. The district has stated that if the governor brings back the funding, it would consider restoring school bus service for students but has warned there are no guarantees given its $15 million 2012-13 fiscal year budget shortfall.