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Board adopts district and charter LCAPs and approves 2025‑26 budget after public discussion
Summary
Trustees approved five charter LCAPs, the Santa Rosa City Schools LCAP and adopted the district's 2025‑26 budget following public hearings and a staff presentation that emphasized fiscal constraints and stakeholder outreach.
The Santa Rosa City Schools Board of Education approved local control and accountability plans (LCAPs) for four charter schools and Cesar Chavez Language Academy, approved the district LCAP for 2025–26 and adopted the district’s 2025–26 budget at its June 25 meeting.
What trustees approved: By separate roll‑call votes the board approved the 2025–26 LCAPs for Cesar Chavez Language Academy, Santa Rosa Accelerated Charter School, Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts, Santa Rosa French American Charter, and the Santa Rosa City Schools district LCAP. Trustees also approved the combined 2025–26 budget and its accompanying resolution.
Why it matters: District staff and union and community representatives had described this as a difficult budget cycle with a structural deficit projected to continue through 2028. CSEA and the Santa Rosa Teachers Association urged transparency and earlier community engagement on budget and LCAP timing; the CSEA speaker asked the board to “commit to transparency and better timing so that LCAP and budget votes don’t happen after our stakeholders have left for the season.”
Discussion highlights: Staff described revisions made since the June 11 public hearing, including additional financial detail and how restricted funds and staffing ratios were being used to align resources to student needs. Trustees praised efforts to increase stakeholder input and offered suggestions to more formally capture comments during the year so they can feed into future LCAP cycles. Board members also discussed school safety and the budget implications of security and support staffing.
Vote details: Each LCAP and the budget were adopted by roll call. The district LCAP and the 2025–26 budget were moved and seconded by trustees on the record and passed with recorded ayes from trustees present; trustees recorded their votes on the record during roll calls recorded in the meeting transcript.
Speakers: The discussion and presentations were led by Dr. Castro (Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services), interim superintendent August and district finance staff. CSEA and the Santa Rosa Teachers Association offered public comment and asked the board to prioritize clarity and community timing.
Ending: Trustees asked staff to continue to improve outreach and to return budget updates at required reporting points (45‑day update and interim reporting).
This article is based on the board discussion, public comments and roll‑call votes recorded in the June 25 meeting transcript.
