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San Rafael trustees approve 2025-26 budgets and local control plans, schedule study sessions
Summary
The San Rafael City Schools Board of Trustees on June 16 approved adopted budgets for the elementary and high school districts and adopted Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) for both districts, and signaled more study sessions ahead to address post‑COVID funding and attendance-driven revenue risks.
San Rafael City Schools trustees approved adopted budgets for both the elementary and high school districts and adopted Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) for each district at their June 16 meeting.
The decisions set the spending priorities and accountability measures the district will use in 2025–26. Board members and staff said they expect follow-up study sessions in the summer and fall to review implementation details and to address budget pressures tied to fading pandemic-era funding and attendance recovery.
Board staff presented the budgets and LCAPs after a prior public presentation. Trustees voted separately to adopt the elementary budget and the high school budget and then approved the elementary and high school LCAPs. Board members asked that the district schedule study sessions to allow deeper review of budget assumptions, the LCAP metrics and state-local indicators, and the roles currently funded with one-time COVID-era dollars.
The board approved the elementary adopted budget after a motion moved by Trustee Kerner and seconded by Trustee Geneva Marsh. The motion passed with the board voice vote recorded on the motion. The board then approved the high school adopted budget on a motion by Trustee Kerner, seconded by Trustee Lau. Both LCAPs—elementary and high school—were later adopted following motions moved and seconded by trustees on the record.
Board members and staff emphasized two operational priorities tied to the approvals: continuing efforts to recover average daily attendance (ADA), which affects state funding, and preparing for “rightsizing” conversations about positions and programs currently sustained by temporary COVID funds. The board and district staff said those conversations will continue in public study sessions and budget workshops this summer and fall to align multi‑year planning with expected revenues.
The board’s action follows staff presentations that linked the LCAP local indicators to district priorities such as school climate, access to broad course of study, CAASPP performance and graduation rates. District staff said the LCAP presentation at the meeting was for review and that full progress reporting will return in the fall.
Trustees and staff urged members of the public to attend upcoming study sessions and workshops to learn more about the LCAP measures and the district’s budget assumptions.
Funding and implementation details referenced in the meeting were presented as staff estimates and planning assumptions; no new revenue sources or program eliminations were adopted at the meeting.
