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Forsyth County schools outline three-step 2026 budget timeline, warn of TRS and health-care pressures
Summary
Finance staff presented a three-step timeline for the 2025–26 budget process, saying salary and benefit projections and state revenue figures (QBE, property tax digest) will push a full draft to May and could require continued resolutions later in summer.
Larry Hammel, a district finance staff member, presented a three-step timeline for the 2025–26 budget process at the Forsyth County Schools work session on March 11. He told the board the district opens operational budget modules in November, runs salary-benefit projections in December–February, and refines revenue estimates in late spring before presenting a draft budget in May.
Hammel said the operational budget uses a zero-based approach for non-salary items, with departments entering requests into the district’s budgeting module and then meeting individually with finance staff for review. “We have 3 steps to the budget process,” Hammel said,…
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