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Bloomfield Hills officials cite enrollment decline, state budget uncertainty and grant-funded water-filtration work
Summary
Finance committee members updated the board on enrollment projections, risk to state funding, preschool tuition changes, bus purchases and a state grant to meet new drinking-water filtration requirements.
Trustees received a finance and operations update that covered enrollment projections, legislative budget risk, contract and purchasing items on the consent agenda, and a state grant to fund new filtration systems at drinking fountains.
Superintendent West and finance staff reported that district enrollment remains in decline and that the district used its usual cohort-based projection methodology; spring-to-fall counts showed a modest pickup of about 27 FTEs since last year's projection. Staff said the projection method has been accurate historically but that reliability decreases the farther it extends (10-year projections less reliable than 1-3 year forecasts).
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