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Riverton board adopts 2025–26 budget, raises teacher base and sets aside reserves
Summary
The Riverton School District board adopted a $47.4 million general-fund budget for 2025–26 that raises the teacher base pay, funds step increases, and earmarks more than $1 million for reserves while planning contingencies if certain federal Title grants are lost.
Riverton — The Riverton School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously to adopt the 2025–26 budget on the amended document the administration uploaded during the meeting, approving a general fund of about $47,375,000 and a package of wage increases and reserve allocations.
The budget includes a proposed $1,800 increase to the teacher base pay, a pool for frozen step increases of $325,000, and transfers of $200,000 to food service and $170,000 to the district day-care operation. "Even with that said, we felt like we're we could put in reserves $1,100,000," said Colton, the district business manager, during his…
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