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PGUSD budget shows structural deficit; board holds public hearing on adopted 2025–26 budget
Summary
Assistant Superintendent presented the district’s adopted budget projection showing a combined operational deficit and falling reserves; the board held a public hearing May 15 and heard dozens of public comments urging classroom protections and alternatives to cuts.
The Pacific Grove Unified School District held a public hearing May 15 on the adopted 2025–26 budget after Assistant Superintendent Jordan presented the district’s multiyear projections and key assumptions.
Jordan told the board the district projects a combined revenue total of roughly $47.0 million for 2025–26 against projected combined expenditures of about $48.0 million, producing a projected combined operational deficit of approximately $1.04 million and an unrestricted reserve projected at 6.9% for 2025–26. He said PGUSD remains a basic‑aid district, with about 81% of revenue coming from county and district property taxes, and that long‑term constraints (step‑and‑column salary growth, pension costs, and shrinking federal/state categorical funds) have created a structural deficit. “After covering rising expenses there’s very little left, if anything, for ongoing salary increases,” Jordan told the…
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