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Piper USD 203 board adopts 2025–26 budget; board notes enrollment and valuation increases and state aid shifts
Summary
The board adopted the district’s 2025–26 budget by a 7–0 vote, setting maximum authority for spending across funds and citing a 9% assessed valuation increase, a projected 3.6% enrollment increase and differing changes across state aid and cost‑of‑living allocations.
The Piper USD 203 Board of Education adopted the district’s 2025–26 budget Sept. 8 by a 7–0 roll‑call vote, establishing the statutory maximum authority to collect revenues and spend funds for the fiscal year.
Kim Buckner, the district’s Director of Business, presented the budget executive summary and explained that adopting the budget establishes maximum authorities for each fund; it is not a promise to spend the full adopted authority. “It is the maximum amount we’re able to either bring in or spend,” she said.
Key figures in staff materials and presentation included an assessed valuation increase of about 9 percent, a projected funded enrollment increase of roughly 3.6 percent, and a state base aid increase of about 4.4 percent. Buckner also told the board the district expects an 11 percent decrease in the state…
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