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Tempe Union board approves Revision 1 of 2025–26 expenditure budget, 4-0
Summary
The Tempe Union High School District board approved Revision 1 of the 2025–26 expenditure budget at a evening meeting, incorporating state legislative funding changes and a projected enrollment decline; the motion passed by a 4-0 roll call vote.
The Tempe Union High School District board voted 4-0 to approve Revision No. 1 of the district’s 2025–26 expenditure budget at a meeting held at 6 p.m., incorporating recent state legislative funding changes and district enrollment projections.
Business services staff member Roland told the board that the revision updates the budget the board adopted last week using preliminary state forms, replacing those with the state’s final budget forms that reflect legislative changes. “The legislature did officially approve the 2% base support level increase. This is the lesser of 2% or inflation,” Roland said, and he described additional one‑time funds and a state aid supplement included on the final forms.
The revision incorporates three primary state funding adjustments Roland listed: a 2% base support level increase that added roughly $1.7 million in maintenance and operations (M&O) budget capacity; one‑time funding tied to free‑and‑reduced‑price-lunch counts totaling $306,000; and a one‑time DAA supplement of $356,000. Roland also said the state moved the backfill for the referenced Proposition (described in the presentation as “prop 1 2 3”) into the state general fund as a state aid supplement; the district’s share of that supplement is “just over $909,000,” he said.
Roland told trustees he also incorporated the district demographer’s projected enrollment decline for the coming year — a 3.33% decrease — which, by his calculation, would reduce revenue by just under $2.6 million. After accounting for the legislative increases and the enrollment projection, Roland reported the Revision 1 M&O budget limit at $122,272,000, up $696,609 from the adopted budget limit of $121,576,000. He said capital budget limits were unchanged from the adopted budget.
Board members raised no questions during the discussion and the board president moved to approve item C1 with a roll call vote. The roll call recorded four aye votes: Board Member Montero (aye); Board Member Gutierrez Miller (aye); Vice President Steele (aye); and Andres Barrazo (aye). The motion passed 4-0.
Roland said the revised budget figures are intended to provide the correct budget amounts before county officials set the district’s tax rate next month. The board also confirmed the next regular meeting is scheduled for Aug. 6 at 6 p.m.
Votes at a glance Revision No. 1 of the 2025–26 expenditure budget — Approved (roll call vote 4-0).
