Things have always operated with somewhat of a shortage. We could always use more qualified substitute teachers. There are days when the administrative staff looks for teachers to cover somebody's class because we couldn't find anybody to substitute.

We don't know the number of students for next year, but when we do, we'll determine if more portables are needed at each school. We will create campus maps with all potential future portable sites. We'll then bring ideas by the board so that they can see what the plan is.

We're still in the process of doing enrollment projections for next year. When the projections are completed, we'll know how many portables should go in and when and where they'll go in by January or February.

It doesn't sound like a lot. And it isn't a lot but it's six more cents and when you put it in perspective it adds up.

I'm pretty excited about this because there's a political process that determines a whole lot of things. Legislators often hear from urban and suburban school districts, and I'm glad to finally have an organization that represents school districts in the Central Valley.

There are tracts of land that are going to be annexed by the city and are going to be developed by developers that we don't have mitigation agreements with. Part of our job is to continue to get agreements with all of those developers.