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Community education presents balanced‑recovery budget, highlights expanded early‑learning and adult programs
Summary
Director Jake Winchell told the board the community education program is largely fee‑supported, returned toward net positive for 2025–26 in a proposed budget, and reported participation and service counts across early learning, kids club, adult education and senior services.
Jake Winchell, director of community education, presented the 2025–26 proposed budget to the South Washington County Schools Board on June 12 and reviewed program highlights from the 2024–25 year.
Winchell said community education is primarily fee‑based—about 70% of revenue comes from participant fees—and that salaries and benefits compose roughly 80% of expenditures. He told the board the department tightened expenses and increased revenues where possible and that some program balances will intentionally run at a deficit because they are community services, not profit centers (for example, the senior center and early learning).
Program highlights provided in the presentation included:
• Early lear…
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