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SLPS board approves FY25–26 budget updates after grant allocations change; net reduction about $868,000
Summary
Budget staff told the board that several federal and state grant estimates converted to actual allocations, yielding net revenue and expenditure adjustments; the board approved the revised FY25–26 proposed budget.
Budget staff presented updates to the district's proposed FY25–26 budget during the June 10 meeting, saying actual grant allocations had arrived since the May presentation and required updates to revenues and expenditures.
A district budget staff member identified as Miss Johnson told the board that updated grant notices changed the budget both up and down and that the net change across funds was a reduction of $868,395. She said that updated allocations that arrived as actuals (rather than estimates) totaled roughly $7.5 million in staff calculations and named several grants and amounts used to update the proposal, including a Perkins award of about $1,000,000, a CTE base and performance allotment of roughly $330,000, and an IDEA Part B allocation of about $5,200,000. Johnson also said an ECSE (6–11) transportation-related allocation and an Afghan-refugee allocation were in the crosswalk used to explain the changes.
When Johnson later summarized net federal changes, she said federal revenue decreased by $877,547 due to reductions that included an Afghan-refugee grant cut of about $756,000, a refugee grant reduction of $22,001.73, a Perkins reduction of $88,007.70, and an ECSE 611 reduction of $14,002.56. She said small increases were present in other grants (for example a $9,152 increase in the CTE base/performance line and a $4,471 increase in IDEA Part B between estimate and allocation). The staff presentation included a crosswalk tying each change to the affected fund and function and showing corresponding expenditure adjustments.
Miss Johnson explained the mechanics: when a grant estimate is adjusted down, planned grant-funded expenditures also fall—reducing supplies and purchase-service lines in some programs. She said the largest expenditure reductions were $774,000 in supplies/materials and $93,874 in purchase services, and described how the district would use fund balance if required to maintain required services.
Board members asked for additional detail on a few lines, including a roughly $2 million increase in the board-services object code and a larger legal-settlements increase; staff agreed to provide the requested line-item details following the meeting.
The board voted to approve the revised FY25–26 proposed budget during the action agenda (item 15.18). No roll-call tally beyond the meeting’s recorded affirmative votes was provided in the presentation excerpt.
