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USDB board adopts FY26 budget plan allowing outreach charges to cover shortfall; staff cuts and working group planned
Summary
After a financial report showing a potential fiscal-year deficit, the USDB board approved the FY2026 budget and authorized charging outreach services as needed to help balance a projected shortfall; board members debated staffing cuts, charging LEAs and the role of a working group.
The Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (USDB) Board approved a fiscal year 2026 budget and gave USDB authority to charge outreach services as necessary to help maintain a balanced budget, after a financial report showed revenues of $50,660,000 and expenditures of $51,230,000 for the reporting period, leaving an estimated shortfall.
Vicky Summers, USDB financial manager, presented the 10-period financial report ending April 30, 2025: “For these 10 periods, we have revenues totaling 50,660,000.00, and our expenditures are 51,230,000.00. This does leave us a deficit of expenditures over revenues of $572,000.” Summers told the board final figures would not be available until the last payroll of fiscal year 2025 runs in July.
Board members and staff said USDB faces a larger structural gap in next year’s appropriations. Staff described a projected shortfall of about $5,800,000 against usual operations and presented options including charging local education agencies (LEAs) for outreach services (on a sliding scale), reducing positions and convening a legislatively required working group to…
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