The Davis Board of Education will hear an enrollment update for the Davis schools on Thursday and consider a contingency plan that could implement salary reductions and furlough days for school district administrators if Proposition 30 fails in the Nov. 6 election.

Trustees will meet at 7 p.m. in the Community Chambers at Davis City Hall, 23 Russell Blvd. The meeting will be carried live on Davis cable Channel 17 and as streaming video at www.djusd.tv.

The local contingency plan to be considered by the school board Thursday includes a reduction of up to seven work days and a salary reduction of 3.5 percent, over and above the 2009 reduction of three work days and a 2 percent salary reduction. These cuts would impact the members of the district’s administrative leadership team, including district office administrators and department heads, principals and others.

The reductions would result in a general fund savings of about $158,000 annually, in addition to the ongoing savings of $90,000 annually from the 2009 concessions.

The resolution for these administrative contingency concessions is “phased” so that partial concessions could be implemented if the state budget reductions prove to be less than the $440 per student expected if Prop. 30 fails.

The board also will also hear an enrollment update, now that the first few weeks of the new school year have been completed. The Davis school district has 8,603 students this year, a slight reduction from last year’s 8,615 students at this point. Average class sizes have increased, largely as a result of a reduction of more than 45 teaching positions over the summer due to budget cuts. The average class size is 30 students in grades K-3, 33 students in grades 4-6, 35 students in grades 7-9 and 37 students in grades 10-12.

All teachers who were on the certificated rehire list after last spring’s round of layoff notices have been restored to a position somewhere in the district, officials report. However, some teachers on temporary/probationary status did not come back for the new school year. There are some new hires among the school district’s teachers, but these newcomers are replacing employees who left due to attrition, retirement, leave of absence, etc., and do not represent newly created teaching positions.

Elsewhere, on the agenda, the school board will:

* Hold an initial discussion of  a proposed “cost neutral” internal reorganization of the school district’s technology department, redistributing some duties and changing some job descriptions. Action on the proposal is expected at a board meeting later in September.

* Recognize Da Vinci Charter Academy for receiving national recognition at this summer’s New Tech Annual Conference, for a project by Da Vinci students titled “America at War.”

— Reach Jeff Hudson at [email protected] or (530) 747-8055.

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