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Birmingham Board adopts 2025–26 budget as trustees stress need for further adjustments after state funding remains unsettled
Summary
The Board approved the fiscal 2025–26 General Appropriations Budget on June 30, voting 6–1 to adopt a budget based on the Michigan Senate proposal while noting the state school-aid budget remained unfinalized. Business-services staff walked trustees through property-tax mechanics, hold-harmless millage details and projected fund balances.
The Birmingham Board of Education voted to adopt the district’s 2025–26 General Appropriations Budget on June 30, approving a budget built on the Senate’s pending school-aid proposal and district assumptions about enrollment and local tax levies.
Kevin, the district business-services presenter, opened the statutory portion of the meeting by saying the presentation was intended “to help you understand how property taxes work in our community, and how they impact the per student foundation provided by the state,” and described the district’s use of the Senate budget as the working assumption because the state’s final school-aid bill had not been signed.
Kevin told trustees the district expects a modest enrollment decline—“a modest decline of blended student enrollment of 38.53…
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