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Orting SD previews draft 2025–26 budget; state apportionment remains largest revenue source
Summary
District staff presented an initial draft of the 2025–26 budget, outlining fund structure, revenue shares and enrollment assumptions and scheduling a public hearing in August.
District finance staff presented the initial draft of the Orting School District’s 2025–26 budget at the June meeting and told the board the district will hold a public hearing on the budget in August.
The presentation described the district’s fund structure and revenue mix: officials said state apportionment (the general-purpose state payment driven by student full-time equivalent counts) accounts for the largest share of revenues (about 56%), levies about 15%, state categorical funding roughly 23% and federal funds about 3%. Food-service and other funds were shown as smaller percentages.
Staff outlined expenditure composition as well: teaching and classroom activities make up the largest share of spending (roughly 70% of expenditures), and salaries and benefits account for nearly 80% of district spending. The presentation noted that OSPI account-code rules determine how certain supervisor and program costs are reported in central-administration lines.
Enrollment and program notes: the staff presentation included multiple enrollment charts and said district budget planning uses January enrollment as the primary baseline, with separate counts for CTE/running-start and special-education programs. The presenters said the district is budgeting for modest enrollment changes and flagged upcoming additions to CTE programming (adding seventh-grade science into middle-school CTE), noting this will change some revenue/expenditure balances.
MSOC disclosure and fiscal context: staff again provided the material/supplies/operating costs (MSOC) disclosure the state requires and noted the district continues to spend more in those categories than the state allocation covers. Finance staff said that, in some cases, local levy dollars and other local support offset state shortfalls. The central office encouraged community members to review the budget summary posted on the district website and to participate at the August public hearing.
Next steps: staff will post the budget summary on the district website; the board will hold the statutory public hearing in August and then consider adopting a final budget. No formal vote on the budget occurred at the meeting; the presentation served as the initial draft review and public notification.
