School board adopts final 2025–26 budget after public hearing with no speakers

The school board voted to adopt Resolution 856081325, approving the district's final budget for the 2025'326 school year after a public hearing at which no members of the public spoke. Board President moved adoption and a board member seconded; the motion passed on a voice vote.

The budget matters because it sets operating authority for the coming school year and reflects lingering uncertainties in federal and state funding that the district said could affect programs and capital planning. Alfonso Milton, executive director of business services, presented a summarized version of the budget materials previously shown in July and answered board questions.

Milton said the district expects to begin the year with a fund balance slightly above 10% of annual expenditures, placing the district at the lower end of the board's preferred range. "Projected ending fund balance for 24'5 or beginning fund balance for 25'6, right around a little over 10% of our expenditures," Milton said. He described the budget bars on the packet charts and noted…