Each held 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the school auditoriums:
• Tuesday, Evergreen High School
• Thursday, March 10, Mountain View High School
• Wednesday, March 23, Union High School
• Thursday, March 31, Heritage High School
Evergreen will also host a live cable TV-Internet Web cast from 6 to 7 p.m. on March 16, with Superintendent John Deeder and Chief Operating Officer Mike Merlino.
Winners: (to be cut last): Includes classroom teachers (elementary level valued most), fifth-grade band-orchestra, drug and alcohol intervention specialists, school librarians.
Losers: Includes teaching coaches, community education program, four associate high school principals, professional membership dues, district travel and meeting food costs, non-secretarial support staffing beyond school hours.
An ad-hoc budget committee mostly composed of Evergreen Public Schools parents has turned in a prioritized menu of where to start cutting as much as $27 million from the 2011-12 district budget.