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Columbia Heights board adopts revised 2024–25 budget, projects general fund balance within policy
Summary
The board approved the district’s revised fiscal 2024–25 budget. Directors said the revised budget projects a general fund balance of roughly 12.5 percent of expenditures if current assumptions hold, and described several fund-level projections and risks tied to state aid timing.
The Columbia Heights Public Schools Board voted April 22 to adopt a revised budget for fiscal year 2024–25 that the district projects will move the general fund into the district’s fund-balance policy range.
Director Brian Hennekens presented the revised budget at the meeting and at length at the April work session. He summarized key fund-level projections: the general fund revenues of roughly $67.0 million against expenses of about $62.5 million, producing an anticipated general-fund balance near $13 million across restricted, assigned and unassigned categories and an unassigned general-fund balance projected at roughly 12.5 percent of expenditures if current assumptions hold.
Hennekens walked the…
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