OAKLAND — The Oakland school board on Wednesday rejected Superintendent Antwan Wilson’s proposed budget guidelines that called for $14 million in cuts next school year.

The trustees voted 5-2 against the proposal, which called for $8.5 million in reductions to the central office and another $5.5 million in reductions needed because of declining student enrollment. Two student trustees were absent.

About 200 people jammed into the gym at La Escuelita Education Center for the meeting, which went on for more than four hours as the district sought to wriggle its way out of a financial jam. There was only one other item on the agenda — a resolution ordering Wilson to delay school consolidations until next school year — but action on that was postponed.

With Wilson on his way out, new Acting Superintendent Devin Dillon sat in and welcomed Alameda County Office of Education Superintendent L. Karen Monroe for an explanation of her recent downgrade of the district’s fiscal position from “positive” to “qualified.”

“I altered the certification status to ‘qualified’ for more specific budgetary reductions,” she said. A qualified rating, she said, means the district “may not meet its financial obligations in the current and following two years.”

As a result of the downgrade, Monroe has ordered the district to submit an additional fiscal report to the county office of education in June to address how it will handle financial shortfalls in the budget.

The reports’ timeline factored heavily into the board’s deliberations.

Oakland Unified State Trustee Carlene Naylor warned the panel that any delays could hamper the process of completing the school district’s next fiscal report and ultimately jeopardize bond ratings if its reporting was downgraded again.

Despite Jumoke Hilton Hodge’s complaints as the meeting wore on that her colleagues were attempting to “micromanage” the process, trustees Aimee Eng, Roseann Torres and Shanthi Gonzales successfully pushed for more detail on the proposed cutbacks before the plan could be approved. Only Hodge and a visibly exasperated board President James Harris voted in the resolution’s favor.

The budget dilemma will be taken up again Wednesday at 5 p.m. in City Hall.