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Board sets May 12 public hearing on FY25 budget amendment after staff details grant-funded spending
Summary
The board set a public hearing for May 12 on a proposed fiscal year 2025 budget amendment that largely reflects newly awarded grants and timing of capital projects, including electric school bus and school safety grants.
The Sioux City Community School District board voted to set a public hearing at 6 p.m. May 12 in the Educational Service Center to receive public input on a proposed amendment to the district’s 2024–25 budget.
Finance director Patty Blankenship presented details of the proposed amendment, saying it is needed primarily to reflect new or newly-awarded grant revenue and timing changes for capital projects. By function, she proposed an increase of $500,000 for instruction (largely to cover tuition/out open enrollments and substitute pay increases), about $8,190,000 for support services tied mainly to grants, roughly $10,000 for noninstructional school nutrition adjustments and about $1,475,000 for other expenditures tied to ESSER capital carryover. Blankenship said the bottom-line amendment appearances in the presentation were shown as a $10,300,000 adjustment, and later discussed the amendment in pieces that the board and staff summarized as about $8,200,000 in newly identified fund sources plus roughly $2,000,000 drawn from the district’s unrestricted or categorical reserves.
Blankenship identified primary funding sources named in the presentation: a bus grant she said was about $5,925,000; a school safety improvement grant of $751,000 for security camera work; and ESSER capital carryover for projects that extended beyond June 30 of the previous fiscal year. She said the sales-tax-funded capital projects line includes a roughly $2,000,000 estimate for work that carries across fiscal years. Blankenship emphasized that the amendment reflects timing and newly-awarded funds, not a tax increase.
Board members asked clarifying questions about fund-level impacts and whether the amendment would require using reserves. Blankenship said about $490,000ish would affect the general fund, with other adjustments drawn from sales tax and specific grant funds; she said the amendment does not change tax rates. Director Aoki reiterated that the amendment covers current fiscal-year spending through June 30 and does not set budgets for FY26.
After discussion and no public comment, the board voted to set the May 12 public hearing.
Board members framed the amendment as a standard mid‑year adjustment to reflect grant awards and carryover spending and directed staff to publish the legally required hearing notice.
