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SANGER HERALD 7A THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2019
SUSD: Wages and benefits of $106 million make up 79 percent of the general fund expense.
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Sanger veteran is featured in ValleyPBS documentary
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The ValleyPBS premier of "Home- coming" at 6:30 p.m. on June 30 will feature Sanger veteran Larry Reed.
The 30-minute documentary on VPS Channel 18 has interviews with Vietnam War veterans who traveled to Washington D.C. as part of the Central Valley Honor Flight.
This was the first Central Valley Honor Flight made up entirely of Viet- nam War veterans.
The three- day trip took place in May and a ValleyPBS film crew trav- eled alongside, capturing the veteran's experience.
“ValleyPBS is committed to telling stories of service and is honored to
be a voice for members of our local military community,” said Sarah Soghomonian, production manager for ValleyPBS.
“Traveling with the Central Valley Honor Flight was an experience of a lifetime.”
The documentary features inter- views with Vietnam veterans from Sanger, Selma, Dinuba, Mariposa and Fresno.
Each of the veterans in the film talk openly about their Vietnam expe- rience and share the impact it had on their lives.
“Many veterans keep the emotions of their war experience bottled up inside,” said Soghomonian.
“Visiting the Vietnam Memorial brought the opportunity to speak out about what they witnessed, which for some allowed healing.”
The documentary captures the veterans’ experience on the Central Valley Honor Flight. They visited military and war memorials, including The Vietnam Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
Funding for Homecoming was provided by the Clovis Veterans Me- morial District.
The documentary will be rebroad- cast July 4 at 7:30 p.m., prior to A Capitol Fourth on ValleyPBS.
About ValleyPBS
ValleyPBS enriches, educates and strengthens our diverse Valley com- munity through the power of public service media.
For 42 years, ValleyPBS has pro- vided PBS signature programming, as well as locally produced shows and
is the Valley’s preschool, classroom, stage for the arts and lens for explora- tion, pointing citizens of all ages to destinations where their interests will be served, their spirits lifted, and their voices and perspectives heard.
after 34 years with the district.
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Del Beshore with wife Debbie. Beshore has been with the district for 34 years, starting as a basketball coach and retiring as director of technology.
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Holly Willet with WAMS principal Leo Castillo who introduced Willet at the school board meeting as a new WAMS vice principal. The bouquet is from one of the 14 members of Wil- let's family, including childen, who attended the meeting to congratulate her.
Thegeneral fundbudgetshowedunre- stricted revenue of $120 million and expenses of $116 million.
When restricted revenue and expenses were included the district's total general fund budget for the 2019-2020 fiscal year projected $135 million in revenue and $133 million in expense.
Wages and benefits of $106 million make up 79 percent of the general fund expense.
That's not unusual for a public sector gen- eral fund budget.
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The school district's chief financial officer Mar- sha Alfving who made the budget presenta- tion to the board.
Wages and benefits made up 70 percent of the city's $13.6 million general fund budget. Due to union contracts, health insurance
premiums and statutory expenses such as Social Security and pension contributions — all of which most officials say are beyond their control — it's not unusual for the human cost of public sector budgets in California to eat up as many as seven or more of every 10 taxpayer dollars.
Among the expenses in the remaining 21 percent of the budget are $7.4 million for books and supplies, $11.5 million for "Ser- vices and Other Operating Expenditures" and $3 million for "Capital Outlay."
In other action the board voted to:
• raisetheLevelIIDeveloperFeefrom $4.80 to $5.46 per square foot of new resi- dence development;
• approve the district's Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) for years 2019- 2022 after thanking district area administra- tor Cathy Padilla for the 8-9 months of work she put in on the process of crafting the plan;
• approve LCAPs for Quail Lake Environ- mental Charter School, Hallmark Charter School and Sanger Academy Charter School; and,
• approve one-year extensions of the con- tracts of associate superintendents Eduardo Martinez and Tim Lopez, based on favorable personnel evaluations.
The reporter can be contacted by email at sangerherald@gmail.com or by phone at the Herald at (559) 875-2511.
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