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Lancaster Central presents $141.2 million draft 2025-26 budget with modest levy increase
Summary
District staff presented a draft $141.2 million 2025-26 budget that maintains programs and staffing, adds special-education and music personnel, assumes $55.6 million in state aid and includes a proposed property tax levy increase of about 1.85 percent; final figures depend on the state budget and will be finalized April 22.
Jamie, the district's budget presenter, gave the Lancaster Central School District Board of Education a draft 2025-26 budget on April 7, presenting a $141,200,000 estimated expenditure plan that maintains current programs and staffing while adding special-education and music faculty.
The draft assumes $55,600,000 in New York State aid and shows a budget-to-budget expenditure increase of $6.7 million (4.95 percent). "The current budget estimate for State Aid is $55,600,000," Jamie said, attributing most of the state-aid increase to foundation aid and noting recent adjustments to transportation and building aid estimates.
The overview matters because the board must finalize a proposed budget for public presentation and a voter referendum. The board plans to finalize the proposed budget at its April 22 meeting; the public budget hearing is set for May 12 and the budget vote for May 20.
Key revenue and expenditure figures in the draft include: state-aid estimates up about $2.9 million (5.58 percent) year to year; an increase in…
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