BRAINERD SCHOOL DISTRICT COULD TRIM 90 JOBS

Brainerd Superintendent Jerry Walseth told the board yesterday that trimming the budget for next school year by $5.5-Million could mean as many as 90 district employees will have to be laid off. The board curriculum committee approved his report for budget reductions at Wednesday's meeting. Layoffs could include 22 elementary teachers and 12 teaching assistants as well as a non-specified number of secretaries, custodians and administrators. Board member Bob Nystrom told the Brainerd Dispatch that Walseth had put a lot of time and thought into the reductions and administration was doing the best it could with limited resources.