At a Wednesday night meeting, the Glendale-River Hills school board voted to approve $1 million in staffing cuts for the 2024-2025 school year. It's one of multiple budget cuts the board has been forced to consider amid a multi-million dollar budget shortfall.Board President Danielle Bailey said Wednesday to a packed audience that most of the cuts will come from staff retiring or resigning. Bailey said there will be minimal impacts on learning and no impact on classroom size.Multiple community members attending the meeting asked the board exactly how many positions will be cut, and which departments they will come from. Board members declined to answer those questions, and said they are waiting until administration notifies impacted staff members before releasing more information. Some at Wednesday night's meeting said the board has not been transparent since learning of the severity of the budget shortfall in January."If the transparency and the consequences and the accountability don't happen, you will never get support from the community," said one woman in attendance.Others defended the board's communication in the past few months. "As a current teacher, I'd really like to thank the board and I'd really like to thank our administration team. They have been very transparent with us. At every staff meeting we get updates about what is happening," said another woman at the meeting.According to public meeting records, the board first learned they would face a budget shortfall in October. In a Jan. 9 meeting the district's business manager told the board she had miscalculated, and budget projections actually showed a $3.6 million deficit for the 2023-2024 school year. School Board President Danielle Bailey attributes the shortfall to "significant errors in accounting and budgeting by staff members who are no longer with the district," according to a statement released by the district last week."There was over spending over the past couple of years in our budget. And as a board we had approved that spending because we were given inaccurate information. Now, as a board, we rely on our in-house experts. We rely on our administrators. We presume competence," Bailey said in the meeting Wednesday.Since the discovery in January, the superintendent and business manager resigned.Board members said they don't have any plans for any additional staffing cuts. The board has also said there are no plans to close the elementary or middle schools.Bailey, in a passionate request to community members, asked for patience."I'm asking you to have confidence in us and go back through the record and look at our candor. Look at how hard we're trying and look at our effort we're putting in," Bailey said.TOP HEADLINES Winter Weather Advisory: Southeast Wisconsin Friday snowfallSummerfest announces 2024 concert lineupFather: Schizophrenia to blame for FedEx shooting spreeMilwaukee woman seriously hurt in hit-and-run on St. Patrick's DayFormer Milwaukee official convicted of election fraud