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Board approves 2024–25 final budget amendment; adopts initial 2025–26 budget showing $3.7M projected deficit
Summary
The Northville Board approved the final 2024–25 budget amendment, reducing the year-end deficit; the board also adopted the initial 2025–26 budget, which projects a $3.7 million deficit pending state budget outcomes and future amendments.
The Northville Public Schools Board of Education approved a final amendment to the 2024–25 budget and adopted the initial 2025–26 budget at its June 24 meeting.
The final amendment (motion 127) increased revenue compared with the April estimate primarily because of May state aid adjustments. Presenters said the change lowered the projected 2024–25 deficit from about $2.4 million (April estimate) to $750,000 and left the district with an ending fund balance near 32% of expenditures.
Board members asked questions about the drivers of the revision. District staff stated the revenue uptick reflected state-aid recalculations and some one-time receipts; purchase services and capital outlays were largely unchanged. The board voted to approve the final amendment by voice vote; the motion carried unanimously among members present.
The board then considered and approved the initial 2025–26 budget (motion 128). Staff said the district faces structural challenges: projected revenue falls by about $1.3 million compared with the final 2024–25 figures because of the expiration of one-time grants and the loss of COVID-era funds; at the same time, aggregate salary and benefit increases tied to bargaining-era changes and approved contracts add roughly $1.6 million to expenditures.
As presented, the combination produces an initial projected deficit for 2025–26 of about $3.7 million, or roughly a 3% deficit on the district’s General Fund (expenditures about 103% of revenues in the initial projection). Administrators emphasized that the budget adopted June 24 is the district’s initial plan, subject to midyear and final amendments once state budget actions and later revenue updates are known.
Board members thanked staff for outreach and multiple budget briefings and noted the district will return with midyear adjustments as the state and local revenue figures firm up. The board adopted the 2025–26 budget by roll call; no board member recorded a vote in opposition at the meeting.
