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District staff outline 2025‑26 budget estimates: small enrollment decline, referendum revenue and $5.5 million in identified savings
Summary
Director of accounting Raquel Queen told the board the district expects a modest unweighted FTE decline, potential choice‑student adjustments, and a millage referendum projection of about $16.3 million; the superintendent’s proposed cost‑savings totalled $5,522,649 and the district listed spending priorities funded by the referendum.
The Martin County School Board received a budget update on June 17 from Raquel Queen, the district’s director of accounting, outlining 2025‑26 revenue estimates, projected student full‑time equivalents, proposed uses of a local referendum and the superintendent’s cost‑saving proposals.
Queen told the board estimated unweighted FTE (excluding charter students) would fall about 1.3%, from 16,062 to 15,853. She said the district could add up to 232 choice students, which would raise the district’s estimated unweighted FTE back toward last year’s level, to about…
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