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Clark County school board approves FY26 operating, capital and food-service budgets
Summary
The Clark County School Board voted unanimously to approve the fiscal year 2026 operating, capital and food-service budgets after staff reported updated state revenue estimates, a zero percent health-insurance increase and a plan to purchase a school bus.
The Clark County School Board unanimously approved the fiscal year 2026 operating, capital and food-service budgets at its February meeting, following staff updates on state funding, insurance costs and equipment needs.
Superintendent Dr. Bolling told the board that a recently passed General Assembly budget preserved previously expected increases for special education and support-capacity changes and that an estimated additional state allotment of about $292,000 remained in play. He said the division also learned its employee health-insurance renewal would be a 0% increase, allowing staff to remove roughly $301,000 from earlier budget estimates; a separate $30,000 rise in workers’ compensation costs reduced the net insurance savings to about $270,000. Dr. Bolling said the combination of state funds and insurance savings would likely yield close to $300,000 for the division if the state budget is finalized as expected.
The superintendent also reported the conference budget included a one-time $1,000 educator bonus that districts could distribute, although timing and distribution details are set by the state and would not affect the school division’s FY26 recurring base budget. Board members and staff discussed the timing for any bonus payments; Dr. Bolling said bonuses in the conference budget must be paid on or before June 1, 2025.
The board heard that the capital committee identified $135,000 of savings that would allow the division to purchase one of two planned replacement buses this year. Dr. Bolling said the division increased its requested general-fund tax support by $1,263,000 in the proposed budget with a planned 4% employee raise and the addition of new positions totalling $264,747 in recurring costs.
Board member comments thanked staff for negotiating the insurance renewal and for identifying capital savings that enabled the bus purchase. The motion to approve the FY26 operating, capital and food-service budgets passed on a unanimous voice vote, 5–0.
Looking ahead, Dr. Bolling said the division must still present the budget to the Board of Supervisors at an upcoming meeting and monitor final action by the governor.
