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DeWitt Public Schools adopts 2025-26 budget that leaves structural deficit of roughly $337,000
Summary
Board approved the district's 2025-26 general, community education, food service and student activity budgets after a public budget hearing that highlighted a $337,000 structural deficit caused in part by a retirement cost-offset elimination and mismatched revenue-expenditure reductions.
DeWitt Public Schools officials on Tuesday approved the district's 2025-26 budgets, adopting a plan that begins the year with a projected $1.7 million operating deficit but, after removing one-time items, leaves a structural deficit of approximately $337,000.
District officials said the shortfall stems mainly from the state-level changes to retirement funding and differences between revenue reductions and corresponding expenditure decreases. Assistant Superintendent Rob Spagnolo told the board the district's starting point was a 2024-25 board-approved deficit of $1,005,880 (as presented) and that the governor's proposed $3.92 foundation allowance increase would add roughly $1.02 million in revenue, but the elimination of a retirement cost-offset removed about $1.01 million from the budget, producing a net shortfall when combined with other cost increases.
The presentation to the board explained that while the governor proposed increases to some categoricals…
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