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Bear Valley Unified projects $2.9 million planned deficit for 2025-26, shifts one-time grants forward
Summary
District staff told the board that temporary federal and state grants drove year-to-year swings in revenues and expenditures and that a planned recurring deficit from recent negotiations will take multiple years to recover in the districts multi-year projection.
Bear Valley Unified staff presented the district—s proposed 2025-26 budget to the Board of Education, showing an expected operating deficit of $2.9 million and a larger estimated actual deficit of about $1.2 million for the year just ending.
The presentation explained that one-time and timing differences in grant revenuesnotably a spike in Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) apportionments and other restricted grantsare being pushed into future years because the district can only record those revenues when it spends them. That accounting led to a $506,000 year-over-year decrease in recorded revenues at estimated actuals and to shifting hundreds of thousands of dollars of related expenditures into 2025-26 and later years.
Why it matters: District officials said the combination of recurring labor costs from recent contract negotiations and the timing of nonrecurring grant spending makes the…
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