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Atascadero Unified trustees adopt 2025–26 budget, approve LCAP and accept local indicators
Summary
The Atascadero Unified School District Board of Trustees adopted the district's 2025'26 annual budget and reserves, approved the Local Control and Accountability Plan and accepted the state-required local indicators after a public hearing and presentation by district staff.
The Atascadero Unified School District Board of Trustees on Thursday adopted the district's 2025'26 annual budget and reserves and approved the district's Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), the board president said.
The measures were presented to trustees during the board meeting by district staff and carried on roll-call votes. Mrs. Darno, a district staff member who presented the budget, told the board the proposed budget had been the subject of a public hearing the previous week and that no requests for amendments or changes had been received. "We did not receive any request for amendment or changes so it stands as it was written," she said.
The budget adoption funds the district's operations for the coming school year and finalizes reserve levels. The LCAP, which ties district goals to actions and metrics used by the state to evaluate local educational outcomes, was presented and accepted for submission to the county, district staff said. AJ Rossi, who presented the dashboard and indicators item, noted the local indicators are a separate state requirement and are included in the LCAP.
During the meeting trustees acknowledged the work that went into the LCAP. A trustee moved to approve the LCAP; the board then voted by roll call to approve and accept the plan and local indicators for submission to the county. The board later moved to adopt the proposed 2025'26 budget and reserves after the public hearing and presentation.
Roll-call voting recorded on the minutes shows unanimous recorded support: Mrs. Ellis White, Mrs. Coonley, Mrs. McGrew Cain, Mrs. Pierce and Mrs. Taylor each were recorded as voting in the affirmative on the actions presented that evening. The meeting record shows no recorded votes against, abstentions or recusals on these items.
The district will transmit the approved LCAP and dashboard materials to the county office of education and post the final documents online; staff said there remained one minor spelling correction to be fixed before posting. No amendments to the budget were requested at the hearing, and staff recommended the board adopt the proposed budget as presented.
The board also scheduled a governance workshop for July 8 and provisionally July 9 to allow additional time if needed to discuss district goals and guiding documents, a schedule trustees approved during the same meeting.
Next steps identified by staff include finalizing the single spelling correction in the LCAP, posting the approved documents to the district website and filing the LCAP and local indicators with the county office of education as required by state process.
