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New Berlin board approves preliminary 2025–26 budget centered on conservative state-aid assumptions and one-time capital funding plan

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The Board of Education approved a preliminary 2025–26 budget that uses conservative assumptions on state aid, factors in student enrollment changes, and proposes a $6 million one-time capital maintenance funding strategy to mitigate future state-aid reductions and operating pressure.

The School District of New Berlin on Tuesday approved a preliminary 2025–26 budget built on conservative assumptions about state funding and enrollment and including a proposed one-time $6 million capital maintenance transfer to Fund 41.

Patrick, the district budget presenter, told the board the administration built the preliminary plan assuming a maximum 15% reduction in state aid "because of the unknowns in the state budgeting process." He said the district also projected a net increase of 24 full-time-equivalent students for revenue-limit purposes, in part due to…

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