Shoreline Unified School District Board of Trustees unanimously voted to bring back celebrated bilingual teacher Melissa Riley for the 2010-2011 school year during a packed meeting on Tuesday. Parents, teachers and staff breathed a collective sigh of relief when the board resolved to use an unexpected $87,000 property tax windfall from the district’s general fund rather than West Marin-Inverness School’s reserved site fund to rehire Riley.

“We’re not talking about a luxury here. We’re talking…