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Superintendent reports staffing gains, budget moves, enrollment study and community perception survey plans
Summary
Superintendent Clint told the board the district met a $1.5 million budget-reduction target for FY26, plans an enrollment study focused on declining kindergarten cohorts, will pursue a perception survey through Collaborate Muscatine and announced a transition of the district’s mobile food pantry to a local church site.
Superintendent (Clint) delivered the district’s year-end update at the June 9 Board of Education meeting, reporting preliminary state aid and levy figures, staffing changes, an enrollment study, community-perception work and a transition of the district’s mobile food pantry.
Clint said the preliminary state aid and levy report led to a minor reduction in the district’s budget guarantee figure; a $5-per-pupil equity increase lowered the district’s calculated rate from $13.92 to $13.90 (as presented). The superintendent said the district had set a budget target to reduce roughly $1.5 million for FY26 and has met that target largely through attrition and other adjustments.
Staffing: Clint said the district hired 23 new staff members for next year (the presentation listed about 16 beginning educators, five career teachers, an ROTC instructor and a…
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