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Washoe County School District files tentative FY 2025–26 budget with $2.7 million shortfall after state funding shifts
Summary
District leaders approved a final tentative budget and several expense reductions while warning the Legislature’s late actions — including a $705,000 loss in state special-education funding — left an ongoing deficit of about $2.7 million. Trustees voted 7–0 to approve staff recommendations and authorize further academic analyses.
Washoe County School District officials on May 27 filed a tentative fiscal year 2025–26 budget that still shows a projected deficit of about $2.7 million after a series of staff-recommended adjustments and late legislative changes.
The board voted to approve staff recommendations including a temporary drawdown of workers’ compensation reserves, modest increases to some facility-use fees, a reduction in the general-fund contingency account and the relocation/renegotiation of certain leased spaces. The motion to file the budget and authorize continued review passed 7–0.
District Chief Financial Officer Mark Mathers told trustees the budget picture tightened after the state Legislature and its committees revised education funding late in the session. “We are back to the original $9.7 million deficit,” Mathers said in context of earlier projections; subsequent choices and proposals brought the shortfall down but a reallocation in the statewide special-education line increased the district’s deficit by $705,000, he said.
Why it matters: the district is required to submit a final budget to the state in early June but, in legislative years, may later…
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