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Kodiak Island Borough School District asks assembly for $12.98 million as officials warn of multi-year shortfall
Summary
Superintendent Cindy Mika urged the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly to approve the school district's full FY26 funding request of $12,979,556.50; assembly members pressed staff on how borough revenue limits, state decisions and the district's use of fund balance will affect future years.
Cindy Mika, superintendent of the Kodiak Island Borough School District, asked the borough assembly on May 8 to support the district's full FY26 funding request of $12,979,556.50, saying the request is critical to maintaining programs as costs rise.
The district's preliminary budget was built on a projected $10 million deficit identified in the FY24 audit, Mika told the assembly, and assumes a 3.40 increase to the base student allocation and the use of $5,000,000 from fund balance. The district closed North Star Elementary in February as part of cost reductions, an action the district estimates will save about $3,000,000, Mika said.
Why it matters: Assembly members and staff repeatedly framed the request against two constraints: (1) state-level funding uncertainty and (2) the borough's local property-tax limits ("Maptor"). Finance…
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