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Board hears budget outlook and how 2025 legislation affects Granite School District reserves and revenue
Summary
Staff outlined revenue changes after the 2025 legislative session, described the district’s reserves and why they are held, and said several state funding moves reduce the district’s net WPU value despite a 4% WPU increase.
District finance staff briefed the school board on the upcoming budget season, reviewed revenue drivers from the 2025 state legislative session and explained the district’s reserve categories and their purposes.
Todd Hubbard (staff member) told board members the state set the weighted pupil unit (WPU) at a 4% increase this year. But he said several concurrent legislative and policy changes reduce Granite’s net position: some one-time programs expired, the professional-staff ("ProStaff") funding line was moved from an above-the-line formula to a flexible allocation, and the state changed the formula for the voted-levy guarantee that mitigates local property-tax yield losses. Hubbard said the net of those shifts left the district about two percentage points below where it began the session relative to WPU value.
Hubbard described the ProStaff change as a funding reclassification: the state removed a line-item allocation for educator experience/education and returned funds through a flexible allocation. "Steps and lanes," as staff called it, previously produced additional…
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