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Taylor County board hears budget shortfall after FTE drop; district enacts spending freeze
Summary
District finance staff told the Taylor County School Board that full-time-equivalent (FTE) funding is down about 218 students from projection, translating to roughly $1.7 million; administrators have enacted a general-fund spending freeze and are pursuing grants and other savings as they refine next-year projections.
Lacey, a district finance staff member, told the Taylor County School Board during a budget workshop that Department of Education projections originally placed the district at 2,521 FTE for the current fiscal year but the district’s February figure was 2,303 FTE — about 218 FTE below projection, which the presenter said “equates to $1,700,000.”
The presentation showed the Department of Education’s projection for the 2025–26 fiscal year at 2,171 FTE, another drop that staff said would lower recurring funding by roughly $1 million. Lacey said February survey batches had not been finalized by DOE at the time of the presentation, so numbers could be slightly better or worse when the state posts corrections.
Why this matters: the district’s projected available general-fund balance fell to about 6 percent of expenditures when earmarked…
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