# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-08-22T20:12:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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Faced with either a reduction of district staffing or operating at a significant budget shortfall, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education held a vote Wednesday that Vice Chair Riza Jenkins described as feeling “not great” for everyone involved.

Ultimately, the board voted 4-3 to approve a plan proposed by the superintendent and her financial team to freeze and cut dozens of positions, with some of those changes happening this school year and others happening ahead of the 2025-26 academic year. Board Chair George Griffin, alongside Jenkins, Mike Sharp, and Meredith Ballew, voted to pass the tiered ‘Reduction in Force’ proposal. Board members Rani Dasi, Barbara Fedders and Vickie Feaster Fornville voted to oppose its proposed form.

During her presentation to the board, Superintendent Nyah Hamlett listed a variety of reasons for reaching this budget shortfall and concluding cuts to position as a solution. Chief among them, she said, is the district’s declining enrollment. While CHCCS will be home to around 11,000 students this academic year, Hamlett described the school district as having been staffed and operated in the last three years as if it was for more than 12,200 students — which was the recent peak of enrollment in 2019. Student populations, particularly in kindergarten and elementary schools, have steadily decreased since then as the district kept up its per-pupil spending through staff positions and resources.

While the purpose of Wednesday’s vote was to address operating at a $5.5 million deficit in the last fiscal year, an additional goal was to not lay off any employees, which was stressed by Hamlett. The positions cut are not state-funded, but are all locally funded by the county government and special district tax funds from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community. That means, according to the plan crafted by CHCCS leadership, the majority of the positions are not school-based or classroom-facing and all employees who choose to stay at the district will retain a role in some form.

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