Blue Ridge Unified approves revised 2025 budget, Prop 301 payout and multiple personnel and program items in unanimous votes

Blue Ridge Unified School District No. 32 board members approved a second revised fiscal-year 2025 budget and a series of routine agenda items Monday, including authorization to pay the second portion of the Prop 301 classroom-site fund, new hires and an intergovernmental agreement for career and technical education. Board members voted unanimously on each approval; one item was tabled to June.

The district’s finance presenter, Kimberly Dugdale, explained that Arizona law requires school districts to file a budget revision by May 15 and that districts may revise budgets multiple times. Dugdale told the board the district’s student population had declined by 7.9 full-time-equivalent (FTE) students since the last revision and that the revision increased maintenance-and-operations capacity by roughly $342,000, in part because of corrections to transportation reporting and newly included state “group B” weights for K–3 reading, gifted students and free-and-reduced lunch eligibility.

Dugdale said the district’s…