NEWPORT BEACH/COSTA MESA : 10 Non-Teaching Workers to Be Laid Off
In the wake of losses from the collapse of the county’s investment pool, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District board voted unanimously this week to lay off 10 non-teaching employees.
The layoffs, coupled with reduced hours for two other employees, are expected to save the district $250,000 a year in salaries and benefits.
The district, with an annual budget of $86 million, had $80 million in the county pool, which collapsed in December. Of that, $47 million was borrowed to invest for profit. The loan comes due in June.
A citizens panel and the school board worked for weeks to decide where cuts could be made.
On Tuesday, Personnel Director Bruce Hayman presented the board with the list of layoffs, which take effect June 30.
The positions to be cut are the director, assistant director and services coordinator of management information systems, director of district and community communications, media production specialist, employee transportation coordinator, two clerk-typists, a stock clerk and an administrative secretary.
Another secretary and a campus guard will be cut back from eight hours a day to four.
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