STANWOOD-CAMANO SCHOOL DISTRICT: School board addresses budget tightening, elementary school boundaries (SCN)
Mary Jennings reports in the Stanwood Camano News from the Stanwood-Camano School District board meeting of Tue., Mar. 21, 2023.
The Stanwood-Camano School Board voted last week to approve reductions to the 2023-24 budget and adopted recommended changes to the five elementary school attendance boundaries.
They Said It
District spokesperson Evan Caldwell said that working out the [budget] reductions involved many factors.
“The percent of proposed reductions to those budget areas were the result of analyzing district expenditures, gathering staff feedback and adhering to our District Promise and Strategic Plan, which prioritizes student instruction and learning,” he said.
The exact number of positions likely to be reduced is not yet known, Caldwell said.
“It is important to note that we will be constantly adapting this plan as financial developments change at the local, state and federal levels,” he said.
“There are challenges any time an agency adjusts boundaries of any kind,” Caldwell said [about the elementary school boundary adjustments]. “However, the community-driven Capital Facilities Advisory Committee spent a great deal of time analyzing each and every piece of feedback before making their final recommendation.”
“The Capital Facilities Advisory Committee received more than 1,000 individual pieces of feedback during the six-month process of analyzing elementary school boundaries,” Caldwell said.
“We understand that this effort to balance schools and ease overcrowding will result in changes to some families’ routines,” Caldwell said. “We will be working this spring, summer and fall to make this transition as smooth as possible.”
On the Ballot in November 2023
| STANWOOD-CAMANO SCHOOL DISTRICT (NO. 401) |
| Directors. Three of the five director positions are scheduled to be on the ballot. Position 3: Miranda Evans. Candidates for Position 3 must live in director district 3; see the map at this link. Position 4: Debbie Bayes. Director Bayes was appointed after Ken Christoferson resigned his seat on Dec. 6, 2022. The position will be on the ballot in 2023 to fill the remainder of Christoferson’s term, which expires on Dec. 31, 2023, and the succeeding four-year full term, which ends Dec. 31, 2027. Position 5: Natalie Hagglund. Position 5 is an “at large” position; candidates may live anywhere in the district. |
