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District presents first 2024-25 budget amendment; board reviews policy updates from legal counsel
Summary
Assistant Superintendent for Business Services Jennifer Kaminsky presented a first budget amendment for 2024-25 showing net revenue and expenditure revisions; the policy committee's recommended updates from Miller Johnson were presented as a first reading, including changes tied to school code and recent court action on Title IX regulations.
Assistant Superintendent for Business Services Jennifer Kaminsky presented the district's first 2024-25 budget amendment, outlining changes to revenue and spending since the board adopted the original budget in June 2024.
Kaminsky said new state and local developments produced a net revenue decrease of about $4.4 million and a net expenditure decrease of about $4.2 million in the general fund; she told the board the amended projection shows revenues of $177,800,000 and expenditures of $176,700,000, with revenues exceeding expenditures by about $1.1 million. "Overall, our 1st amended budget, revenues are at 177,800,000 expenditures are at 176.7, with revenues exceeding expenditures of about 1,100,000," Kaminsky said.
Key changes described included a $537,000 decrease in tuition revenue (driven by early childhood program shifts), an increase in special education reimbursement of roughly $700,000 tied to cost-report adjustments, and state-level MPSERS (retirement) revenue changes intended to offset certain retirement rate impacts. Kaminsky noted that Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) funding shifted some pre-K programs into grant funding when programs met four-day-per-week criteria.
Kaminsky also summarized changes in federal and state grant funding (net decreases in some federal titles and adjustments to IDEA and nutrition services funds), and said the district had expended prior ESSER funds and is continuing to monitor possible changes to federal funding streams (including E-Rate, Medicaid-related reimbursements and Title funding) that could affect future budgets.
On policy, the board received a first reading of several policy revisions recommended by district counsel Miller Johnson. The changes included removing a now-defunct requirement for districts to maintain performance-based compensation (policy 4004) following changes to the school code; adding required equivalence language for curriculum policy (policy 301) to align with Title I and other federal funding assurances; updates to earned sick-time language under conditions of employment (policy 4003); and revisions to the meal charge policy (policy 5008) to reflect current practice and federal program participation. The policy committee also discussed Title IX rule vacatur and recommended re-implementing 2020 administrative regulations until counsel recommends otherwise, and asked staff to follow up with Miller Johnson on necessary administrative regulation updates.
The policy revisions were presented as a first reading and will return to the board for action at a later meeting.
