Superintendent Shelley Redinger is presenting her thoughts on how to streamline the school division during today’s budget work session.

She announced a 2-year plan of a “very targeted approach” of evaluating the division to make $1.5 million in cuts over two years. Specifically, she is looking at the instruction and technology departments for ways to improve efficiency.

Her goal is to “maximize talents to support instruction” and to outsource some tasks to “increase efficiencies.”

We want to “be sure we’re getting the best for our money,” she told the School Board.

She said she is working with the assistant superintendents in those two departments to streamline and will be employing staff evaluations and assessments.

Once the assessements are finished, she said that some positions will be cut and some will take on different duties that “directly support instruction.”

The idea, Dr. Redinger said, is to “focus on outcome, not people.”

She said the plan is to cut $750,000 for the next school year, which will help decrease the $6.6 million funding gap in her original budget proposal.

Board member Ray Lora said earlier today that he did not want to take a budget proposal to the Board of Supervisors that had a budget shortfall.