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Business services outlines budget process, enrollment as primary revenue driver
Summary
Director of Business Services Chris Blackburn reviewed the district’s budget drivers, projected enrollment decline for 2025–26 tied to a smaller kindergarten cohort, and key expenditure pressures (salaries/benefits, state special-education aid proration and upcoming payroll-tax changes).
Chris Blackburn, director of business services for South Washington County Schools, presented a fiscal update focused on how the district builds the annual budget and the principal revenue and expenditure drivers the board should expect for 2025–26.
Blackburn said enrollment is the primary driver of state aid and noted the district expects a slight enrollment decrease in 2025–26 driven by a smaller incoming kindergarten cohort informed by recent birth-rate trends. He outlined the district’s cohort-survival method for enrollment projection and said kindergarten projections rely on historical birth-rate capture adjusted for district-specific patterns.
On the revenue side, Blackburn said state…
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