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Okemos Board narrows 2025‑26 budget reductions, adds several items to draft for June review
Summary
After a structured work session, the Okemos Board asked administrators to include several staff and program reductions in a draft 2025‑26 budget and deferred final decisions on three higher‑impact staffing items pending further analysis.
Trustees at a special meeting used a formal protocol to review proposed 2025‑26 budget reductions and asked administrators to prepare a draft budget for board review on June 9.
Superintendent Hood and Executive Director Lentz presented a spreadsheet of proposed reductions and a consensus protocol. Trustees ranked each item as level 1 (ready for reduction), level 2 or level 3. Administration identified items where a majority (4+) of trustees already rated an item as a level 1 and highlighted those with narrower margins for discussion.
Following discussion and straw tallies, the board instructed staff to include in the June 9 draft those items that reached a majority of “level‑1” tallies (five or more trustees). Items the board directed administration to include in the draft budget were:
- Reduce one student information system…
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