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Pitkin County funds school mental‑health and SRO support for Roaring Fork schools and Marble Charter; board to consider annualizing support
Summary
County staff outlined a previously approved budget supplemental that directed $103,695 to Roaring Fork School District and Marble Charter School for 2024–25 school‑year mental‑health and school‑resource officer support and asked the BOCC to consider incorporating similar funding into the 2026 budget rather than using back‑end supplementals.
Pitkin County staff briefed commissioners June 24 on a one‑time budget supplemental approved last year that funded school‑based mental‑health resources and school resource officer (SRO) support for Roaring Fork School District campuses and the Marble Charter School. County staff recommended moving future contributions into the annual budget cycle rather than relying on supplemental appropriations.
Levi Bourse, management analyst in the county manager’s office, said the $103,695 supplemental — approved by the board last year and paid out during the 2024‑25 school year — allocated funds to Roaring Fork and Marble based on a per‑pupil parity with existing contributions to the Aspen School District. “To make this as apples‑to‑apples as I could, we…looked at what we were currently doing for the Aspen School District and applied the same per‑pupil contribution rate,” Bourse said.
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