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Randolph schools present $2.215 million local request to commissioners in 2025-26 budget plan
Summary
District finance staff presented the 2025-26 local budget request to county commissioners: $2,115,299 for current expenses (including $1,067,299 continuation costs, $925,000 in supplements and $123,000 for an additional month for data managers) plus a $100,000 capital outlay increase for a $2,215,299 total local request.
District finance staff presented the Randolph County School System’s local budget request for fiscal year 2025–26 to the board and reviewed its key components before the district’s county-level presentation.
Finance staff reported three primary drivers in the current-expense request: continuation costs totaling $1,067,299 (including insurance, retirement matching and utility increases), a 0.5 percentage-point supplement increase for all employees costing $925,000 (the second half of a previously requested 1 percent increase), and the addition of an extra month of employment for data managers at $123,000. Those three items total $2,115,299. The district requested an additional $100,000 to its capital outlay appropriation, bringing the district’s total local request to $2,215,299.
The presenter reviewed line-item totals from the draft budget documents included in board materials: local current-expense (Fund 2) appropriations of about $29,618,197 after the request, capital outlay and activity bus revenue numbers, enterprise fund (nutrition) revenues and expenses, and several restricted funds (Fund 8) including Medicaid outreach and pre-k partnerships. The district said it plans to appropriate about $1,000,003.72 from fund balance this year to help balance the budget; presenters noted that some prior years’ ESSER funding reduced the need to draw fund balance but that with ESSER expiring the district expects to use reserves.
Board members asked questions about the size of the fund-balance appropriation and whether the district expects to dip into savings in future years. Presenters said staff will bring forward proposals in the coming months to reduce recurring expenditures and avoid repeated draws on fund balance.
