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Pomona Unified outlines 2025–26 budget assumptions, warns of enrollment decline and state growth recession

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Business staff presented the district's 2025–26 budget assumptions: a 2.3% COLA, continuing enrollment decline, use of a three‑year ADA smoothing formula, and contingency reserves. Staff said the district's budget planning assumes economic headwinds at the state level.

Sandra Garcia, Assistant Superintendent for Business Services and Chief Business Officer, presented Pomona Unified’s public hearing on the 2025–26 budget on June 11, outlining assumptions staff used to build the coming year’s budget and the district’s fiscal risks.

Garcia said the district used the governor’s May Revision assumptions (including a 2.3% cost‑of‑living adjustment) to prepare a budget that must be adopted by June 30. She flagged a statewide ‘‘growth recession’’ with slower economic growth and noted the state faces a multibillion‑dollar shortfall; she told the…

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