The Sacramento City Unified School District is working to dig out of a $43 million budget deficit to avoid the county Office of Education or the state from taking over.

Sac City Unified will be voting on its fiscal solvency plan at Thursday night's board meeting.

"I know a lot of people are really anxious about this, and I want all the staff affected to know that we really do care, and we know they are people," board member Taylor Kayatta said.

Kayatta said the goal is to have the least amount of impact on students and the classrooms, but it means making difficult decisions.

"The kids might notice, 'Oh, the teacher is running out of paper.' That's not an insignificant thing, but we're not taking teachers out of the classroom," he said.

Kayatta said they are cutting supply budgets,

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