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Sac City Unified rejects all of state's budget review candidates, asks for more names
The Sacramento City Unified School District board Thursday rejected all nine candidates on the state’s list for a Budget Review Committee and asked the state superintendent for more names, saying they didn’t believe the candidates could provide the independent review they sought. The unanimous vote came days after the district’s fiscal overseer, the Sacramento County Office of Education, rejected its revised budget , sending SCUSD into a state review process. “Given that the county, in concert with FCMAT, has not been supportive of the budget, we want an independent set of eyes to look at it and offer recommendations that we’d be willing to look at as well,” Taylor Kayatta, a board member of the district, said. “In that vein, the committee unfortunately believes that all nine names on the list aren’t able to provide us with that independent view.” The district officials are grappling with a fiscal crisis marked by a $222 million structural deficit while clashing with the county education office and the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, the state-funded financial group that provides fiscal oversight to school districts and evaluates their financial health. The state-provided list included six candidates with ties to FCMAT — current chief
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Sacramento Japanese restaurant has fifth break-in, claims lack of police support
Binchoyaki, the Japanese restaurant at 2226 10th St. in Southside Park, was broken into again early this morning. The restaurant’s social media account posted security camera images of two individuals at the front of the restaurant on a bicycle. The images show one of the individuals inside the restaurant after apparently breaking through the front door. “This is simply unacceptable. We’ve been here for 10 years, and this is now the FIFTH time we’ve been broken into,” the caption reads. “And when we reach out to the police, we’re told they can’t come out because of permit issues.” The restaurant is co-owned by its general manager Tokiko “Toki” Sawada and her husband and business partner chef Craig Takehara. According to Takehara, the intruder used a drill on the door’s lock to gain entry. “I was asleep. I have ADT for my security, and they gave me a call that that somebody broke in and asked me if I wanted to call the police. I saw people there, and so I asked them to call the police, and then they called me back a couple minutes later and said that there’s an issue with my permit, and so they’re not going