A vote is expected this evening by the Ventura County Committee on School District Organization on whether to move forward on the effort to unify Camarillo schools in a single district. At our morning news budget meeting today, this looked like one of the potential Page One stories for tomorrow. Currently the high schools there are part of the Oxnard high school district. Staff writer Erinn Hutkin (ehutkin@VenturaCountyStar.com) is covering the meeting for us.

Among the other local stories we're following today:

Staff writer Zeke Barlow (zbarlow@VenturaCountyStar.com) has the story we held from last week on the glut of free CDs flooding area libraries and schools, courtesy of an anti-trust settlement.

Sacramento bureau chief Timm Herdt (therdt@VenturaCountyStar.com) is examining efforts by the labor-backed Alliance for a Better California to place a couple of ballot initiatives on the next ballot.

Education writer John Scheibe (jscheibe@VenturaCountyStar.com) is chasing reports that the new president of Ventura College may be named tonight at the community college district board meeting.

And business writer Gretchen Macchiarella (gmacchiarella@VenturaCountyStar.com) is exploring a positive trend for new college graduates: they're finding more available jobs at better pay.

And options for Page One off the wire include: President Bush's speech in Tbilisi, Georgia; Senate passage of a highway spending bill that may draw the president's first veto; continuing U.S. sweeps against insurgents in Iraq; the followup on the deaths of two second-grade girls in Illinois; and the latest on the base closing process leading up to Friday's possible announcement of the base hit list.