in a union story written by david mahdi more than one hundred parents and community members were told tuesday night due to state budget crisis will likely mean the county's largest school district will lose five point one million in funding over the next school year doesn't take into account money lost by another year of declining enrollment in nevada joint union high school district which has been sliding for the better part of a decade ago but action likely means more layoffs and less resources to educate the count high schoolers parent and community members were told at the meeting in the nevada union cafeteria to discuss the state's budget crisis and its impact on the high school district which includes nevada union bear river high school and a complex alternative schools looks really bad superintendent ralphs once and said prior to the meeting where he took suggestions from the public to boost revenues if they could pass the budget it would help us see what the realit speakers i did this included increasing the parking fee on campus to beef up internet offerings and perhaps lorien teachers salaries as opposed to cutting positions outright this is the end of the world said bill lead the parent of a freshman in nevada uni what rules can we bend what rules can we break to solve this problem the problems once i'm told the audience stems from flawed funding model that he said relied too heavily on property taxes which represents the majority of funding from the state falling property values have squeezed the school's budget combined out with a declining enrollment and a blooming state deficit that's more than forty billion dollars and it creates a sort of perfect storm with seventy two percent of the schools districts thirty five million dollars budget coming from property taxes which have fallen because of the economy it's a problem that will mean certain layoffs which are due to be announced next month in cuts in programs and services assistant superintendent karen soon around said the most vacant positions that don't require a teacher aren't being fi will also have to dip into its reserves to pay bills the state is required to but can't pay for this is not one your problems once and added it's a multi year problem is once and said the state is looking at shortening the school year by five days two hundred eighty and shifting what's called categorical funding money earmarked for specific programs like special education or transportation and dispersing it to the various most in critical need swanton said he would take the ideas called by the participants and use them in upcoming discussions to help craft next year's budget and another union story written by liz keller students at nevada city school of the arts came back from president's day break tuesday to find grim faces and nevada county sheriff's deputies on hand someone broke into the school sometime after saturday night and stole between one thousand and three thousand dollars in cash director holly pettit said the burglar jimmied open a window into a classroom and then broke into the office they tore everything apart she said the intruder found the office safe and other cash that had been locked away in various locations credit estimated as much as three thousand in deposits from parents which were scheduled to be taken to the bank this week had been stolen it was looking for them she said but it's really bad karma about one hundred dollars of money that was stolen had been raised by the school students to send to malaria no more a non profit organization that raises funds to buy mosquito netting for african countries the kids were so excited about donating that money pit said what a horrible thing to do to a school the charter school located at one three zero three two brittany's brings road sits back from the road behind other buildings occupied by by uber river charter school it is isolated enough that anyone breaking in would have plenty of time we're all we are out there she said no one drives by besides the cash that was stolen whoever broke into the school damage a number of door handles and stole various keys to the building expenses of fixing the handles and wrekin the whole building could run another one thousand dollars we don't have a lot of money to be throwing to wage she said anyone with any information on the breaking his words to call the nevada county sheriff's office at two six five one four seven one the last story also written by david roddy more than eighty projects including two proposed a round about i go flat and  highway forty nine and ridge road and zion street are an upgrade to the city's wastewater treatment plant will be examined by nevada city planners to see if they fit general plan guidelines the commission is expected to review a list of eighty one projects most of which have not been fully funded to see if they conform to the city's overall growth plans to move is largely procedural procedural one city planners ci which is looking to see that were consistent with the city's general plan a look at the list of projects indicates a wide range of construction plans from replacing manholes in the city which just five thousand dollars a total of seventy five thousand has been committed to a five thousand dollars study on methane gas one hundred seventy five thousand dollars for a new street sweeper two million for parking garage on spring street most projects have not been fully funded a few have including zion street crosswalks and a downtown storm drain system the two page memo is generally considered a wish list generated by the city's department heads some of the money available for projects could be coming via the federal government from the just signed stimulus package it all depends on how much money will be available sic three had it once the commission approves the list it will be forwarded to the city council to for approval and inclusion into the city's general plan guidelines and there you have it today for our local sometime during the previous week seven fifty three a m a caller from one hundred block of independence court reported a c b radio tools and parts had been stolen from an unlocked jeep wrangler noticed the word  ten o two a m a business from two hundred block of zero college drive reported someone had written bad checks to thirty two pm a caller from the bar metalwork near midnight way reported to drive in a blue toyota was throwing snowballs and on coming traffic and it's three thirty four pm a call from three hundred block of west main street reported vandalism to a fence four thirty six pm a call from two hundred block of south your street reported a woman was harassing customers and a twenty seven p m call from l street reported a man wearing camels carrying a pizza was walking down the street talking about killing his mother he was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public event a county sheriff's office on monday ten sixteen a m man from the sixteen thousand block of gold cone dr reported his neighbor accused him of stealing some boat cans ten forty five a m a woman from one thousand dozen block of sage road reported her daughter was throwing things and tried to break down the door daughter allegedly threw a jar of screws at her and pushed her she did not want to press charges eleven thirty four a m a woman from twelve thousand block of butterfly drive reported that an e mail had been sent her hotmail tech starting stating she was in europe and needed money to be wired to her she had not been in europe and suspected internet f live in fifty eight am a caller from eighteen thousand block of hummingbird drive reported tools worth about three hundred dollars had been stolen and i won fifty four p m it woman from the eleven thousand block of emerald lane reported seeing two men go into a travel trailer on a property that was supposed to be vacant the men were found to be employees of the homeowner and at one fifty six p m and man from twenty five thousand black power and forty nine reported its girlfriend stole his keys and his car reported someone threatened his son the previous night with a knife seven thirty five p m the drunken man was outside self serve your door at the county jail he was arrested on suspicion of violating his probation and  the us occupation force to fifty five thousand to fifty percent rise another thirty two thousand non u s nato troops are also in afghanistan the news comes as the un said afghan civilian casualties jumped by nearly forty percent last year u s led forces were responsible for nearly forty percent of the deaths killing eight hundred twenty eight people out of a reported twenty one hundred casualties president obama meanwhile is set to unveil his fifty billion dollars foreclosure prevention plan later today yesterday the program would offer government money to mortgage companies that let borrowers restructure loans the plan also reportedly grants bankruptcy judges a greater leeway to change mortgages and let homeowners and refinance loans if they owe more than their home is worth as the expected announcement comes one day after obama signed the economic stimulus bill into law at a ceremony and he also said and what makes this recovery plan so important is not that it's just create save three and a half million dollars million jobs over the next two years including sixty thousand plus here in colorado that is we're putting americans to work during the doing the work that america needs done in critical other giant general motors and chrysler have asked the government for twenty one point six billion federal aid the comparison says companies say they need the money to avoid filing for bankruptcy g m also unveiled a plan to cut forty seven thousand more jobs close five north american plants and drops several brands including saturn and hummer general motors c e o rick wagoner said the company wants to avoid bankruptcy i said based on our analysis we continue to believe that bankruptcy would be highly risky and very costly process potentially very time consuming but should only be undertaken as a last resort so our focus our primary efforts continue on transforming our business and they did executing jim's viable plan outside of bankruptcy court g m has already received some thirteen point four billion on loans under the auto industry bailout says it would need as much as one hundred billion in government financing if it goes through bankruptcy new figures show th taxpayers funded bailout of wall street did not lead to the promised boost of bank lending to date treasury department says twenty largest banks receiving taxpayer bailout money actually reduced giving out loans in the last three months of two thousand and eight treasurer says the drop in lending would have been greater without the taxpayer money yeah sure securities and exchange commission has charged the texas billionaire in three of its kind of companies in an eight billion dollars fr two hundred fifty wealthiest person in the united states the center for responsive politics to stanford lobbying would likely have helped defeat passage of the financial services anti fraud network act in two thousand and two the measure would have created a centralized record of banking insurance and financial regulatory to combat fraud stanford financial group made its most political contributions over two thousand and one two thousand and two cycle when the bill passed the house but stalled in federal judge has refused to dismiss charges against blackwater is mercenaries accused of mass killing and fourteen iraqis september two thousand and seven defense attorney had contended the u s government doesn't have jurisdiction to bring charges because the guards were granted immunity judge ricardo erb on urbin he refused to drop the charge but said that he thinks the defense's argument is strong and it should be to sided by the trial judge or jury blackwater recently renamed itself z in an attempt to the environmental protection agency has announced it will consider reversing the bush administration order to weaken regulation and coal fired power plants on tuesday e p a head lisa jackson said the agency will consider to hear public comments on reimposing limits on carbon dioxide emissions jackson made the announcement in response to the sat sierra club petition against a coal plant in utah in guatemala has issued a formal apology to cuba for taking part in the s bay of pigs invasion nine hundred sixty one the kennedy administration used guantanamo sorel to train and group the group of militants used in the ultimately failed attack on tuesday quite a mall and president  in mexico hundreds of people have blocked roads near the us mexico border in protest of an army crackdown on drug related violence government says it's trying to stop drug cartels that have stepped up smuggling and violent attacks but some human rights groups say that danger has only increased since troops arrived fifteen mexicans have been killed in drug related violence since sunday and secretary of state hillary rodham clinton is on her first foreign trip since taking the it this guy gets out of the news at the request of governor's brother when questioned under oath last month failed to tell state lawmakers about these conversations the united states senate ethics committee and the local illinois prosecutor associated press and the union and others for the sourcing of our news if you want to support local news give us a call and ask about underwriting benefits five three zero four seven seven three three zero nine thanks a lot for watching and we will see you tomorrow so