Long Beach Passes Budget in Landslide

Long Beach residents approved the school district’s $131.96 million proposed budget on Tuesday 1,140-462 votes.

The budget passed with 71 percent of the vote, the largest margin in at least 15 years, the district said.

The budget includes a 1.48 percent increase in spending over the current year and carries a 3.19 percent tax levy increase.

Board of Education incumbents Darlene Tangney and Stewart Mininsky ran unopposed and were re-elected after earning 1,396 and 1,272 votes, respectively.

Some of the budget assumptions include adjustments in staff salary categories throughout the functions based on increases for step (or equivalent) as well as the return of higher cost staff from leave offset against decreases for lower cost replacements of announced retirees, increases in health insurance and decreases in pension costs, return of food services subsidy, the addition of three new ENL positions, and more. Get a PDF copy of the Superintendent’s final draft budget presentation here.

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