In a three year-span, the Los Angeles County Office of Education sent 10 letters to Pasadena Unified School District warning it to address ongoing deficit spending.

The letters, provided to this newspaper by LACOE, offer a glimpse into how the district ended up in a fiscal crisis that county officials is “going to be tough.”

They were sent after the agency reviewed PUSD’s annual first and second interim report and its budgets.

Each one was addressed to the Board of Education president, spanning four different presidents (Elizabeth Pomeroy, Michelle Richardson Bailey, Kimberly Kenne and Jennifer Hall Lee).

“We are concerned about the projected trend of deficit spending and its impact on the District’s ability to maintain minimum required reserves in future years,” LACOE Deputy Superinte

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