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McFarland board hears multi-year budget forecast as enrollment slips
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Business manager Jeff Mahoney told the McFarland School District Board that resident enrollment continues to decline, prompting staff to monitor open enrollment, health insurance costs and referendum revenue as the district plans for 2025–27.
McFarland School District business manager Jeff Mahoney told the school board on Monday that the district faces continued declining resident enrollment and is monitoring multiple revenue and expense variables as it prepares the 2025–26 budget.
Mahoney said resident enrollment has fallen, which reduced the district’s revenue cap by about $309,000 and that the district is in the second of three years of a local referendum that can add up to $1,750,000 to the revenue cap. “Our resident enrollment is continuing to decrease and every student is worth a certain number of dollars so our budget really focuses on that,” Mahoney said.
The presentation, which the board heard in the business manager’s report, outlined near-term and multi-year pressures: open-enrollment application…
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