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Board hears district budget update: $91.1M proposed, foundation aid up, levy limit 0.64% after exclusions; board approved consensus and personnel items
Summary
District business staff presented a 2025–26 budget preview showing $91,099,697 in revenues, a $2.9M increase in state aid, use of reserves and interfund transfers, and a tax levy limit (with exclusions) of $37,506,701; board approved consensus agenda items 1–8 and personnel items 1–10 and passed procedural motions.
Allison (business office) and the superintendent presented the board with the district’s 2025–26 budget overview, reporting state-aid increases, planned use of reserves, and tax-cap calculations. The board also approved consent and personnel agenda items on voice votes.
Allison reviewed the governor’s executive budget proposal and said Governor Kathy Hochul proposed $37,365,420,000 in state support for public schools and a 4.75% increase in school aid in the executive proposal; the legislature will still set final numbers. The district’s estimated total aid increase over the prior year was about $2.9 million (7.61%), Allison said, with foundation aid up nearly $2.2 million (about 8.98%). She noted the state is using 2020 census data in formula calculations, which changed several aid lines.
On local revenue and levy calculations, Allison presented a tax levy limit before exclusions of $36,860,034; capital exclusions of $646,667 bring the tax levy limit plus exclusions to $37,506,701 (a 0.64% increase over the prior year) if the district chooses to levy to the cap. She described planned uses of reserves and transfers: an interfund transfer tied to Greenway funds to pay associated debt, a proposed use of the capital transportation reserve for buses and facilities vehicles, technology reserves of $200,000, and planned retiree or benefit reserves (ERS and TRS reserve withdrawals of $750,000 each, workers’ compensation $500,000, and employee-benefit reserves of $450,000). Allison said total proposed revenues and transfers equal $91,099,697.
Superintendent remarks highlighted that some revenues (for example, Impact Aid and Medicaid) are federal and that certain aid flows to Tuscarora School for students attending there. He also noted an Amazon pilot is expected to grow in coming years and will increase local revenue when it is fully operational.
Votes at a glance
- Motion to enter public session — moved/seconded; voice vote: passed. - Motion to accept consensus agenda items 1–8 — moved/seconded; voice vote: passed (recorded as “All in favor, please say aye. Aye.”). - Motion to accept personnel items 1–10 — moved/seconded; voice vote: passed. - Motion to adjourn — moved/seconded; voice vote: passed.
The board’s business office will return with final budget documents and refined levy/levy-limit options at later budget hearings.
