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Ouachita Parish finance committee recommends budget revision after enrollment drop
Summary
The Ouachita Parish finance committee voted to recommend an operating budget revision for fiscal 2024–25 after staff reported a 274‑student enrollment decline and a roughly $1.7 million reduction tied to state funding. The committee unanimously recommended the revision to the full board.
The Ouachita Parish Finance Committee recommended that the school board adopt an operating budget revision for fiscal 2024–25 after staff presented adjustments driven mainly by lower state funding tied to a decline in enrollment.
Regina Mecas, staff member, told the committee the district is 274 students below projections for the year and that the shortfall reduced expected state funding by about $1,700,000. “We have lost students... we’re 274 students down for the year,” Mecas said. She said the enrollment loss accounted for about $1,100,000 of that reduction in the Minimum Foundation Program (MFP) allocation, and that the draft revision currently shows a net change in general fund balance of negative $878,000.
The committee’s recommendation matters because it sends the revision to the full board for…
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