Plymouth-Canton board adopts final 2024–25 budget amendment and hears plan to close projected 2025–26 gap

The Plymouth-Canton Community Schools Board of Education on Tuesday adopted a final amendment to the 2024–25 general fund budget and heard a detailed presentation of the proposed 2025–26 budget that projects lower enrollment, variable state aid, and a $5.5 million gap the district plans to address with across-the-board reductions.

Jill Minnick, chief finance and operations officer, told the board the district “doesn’t know our enrollment. We don’t know our funding,” and described the proposed budget as built on assumptions tied to the state’s consensus revenue estimating conference and legislative budget proposals. The board approved the 2024–25 final budget amendment on a 6–0 vote.

The presentation laid out the district’s primary revenue drivers: state aid (calculated as pupils times the foundation allowance), a countywide enhancement millage, and retirement cost offsets from the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System (MPSERS). Minnick told the board the district is projecting a foundation allowance of $10,000 per pupil for 2025–26 (up from $9,608), a projected enrollment decline of 151 full‑time equivalent pupils to about 15,883 FTEs, and a resulting net state‑aid increase of roughly $4.78 million after accounting for fewer students.

The…