My Proposal to IUSD - Irvine Unified School District - for Cost Savings and Revenue Opportunities

From: Sanjay Dalal, Entrepreneur
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 8:32 PM
To: Vanessa Lewis; Carla Cashman; Jodi Field; Tammy Smecker-Hane; Mike Kathleen; Karen Catabijan; Yan Zhu; Elise Lee; Tina Zhao- PTA Historian 2009-2010
Cc: Sanjay Dalal,Entrepreneur; LaRae Cunningham
Subject: My Suggestions to IUSD

Dear PTA Board Members:

Here are a few suggestions I made today at the IUSD website (this is the only time I have made online suggestion to IUSD). Hoping IUSD team will take a look at them...

Three Cost Saving Programs

1. Seek Corporate Sponsors for various utilities where IUSD spends monthly amounts - Water, Electricity, Gas, Trash, etc. Ask for Corporate Sponsors to support us for the utilities.
2. Seek unpaid Teacher Volunteers (certified) to fill in and help Classroom Teachers. These teacher volunteers could be retired teachers, or certified candidates who are seeking employment with IUSD. The Teacher Volunteer program can be a training program for would be new teachers. We can use such volunteers to fill in for Furlough days and also help teachers during regular school days.
3. Allow PTA to directly help for the Personnel. PTA can provide financial support to hire more teacher assistants, teacher helpers, teacher volunteers, etc. to help alleviate the classroom size.

Cost Savings

1. Allows significant cost savings from all the utility bills.
2. Allows significant cost savings by leveraging volunteers.
3. Allows cost savings by utilizing existing PTA monies.

Revenue Opportunities

1. IUSD has been a model school district for dozens of years, and IUSD schools have been model and distinguished schools in Orange County and California.
Create a Case Study, Training Program and Development on how IUSD became one of the best school districts in all of California - and sell this program to school districts across California & beyond who are looking to improve their schools.

2. Provide more ways for corporations to partner with schools - at least at the high school level - so that we can leverage more corporate dollars. How to do this? For example, have Taco Bell come and deliver presentations on healthy eating, and how Taco Bell helps. Same with Subway and more... Corporations get face time with high school students (their customers), and IUSD gets sponsorship dollars... In short, find more creative ways for Corporations to partner with IUSD schools.

Sincere regards,
Sanjay Dalal, Entrepreneur
PTA Treasurer, Turtle Rock Elementary School
School Site Council Member, Turtle Rock Elementary School

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