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Woodland Park School District presents FY26 budget with 10% workforce reduction, pauses major maintenance spending
Summary
At a Board of Education meeting, district finance staff presented a conservative FY26 budget that assumes a 10% workforce reduction, no salary increases, reduced capital outlays and a small projected positive change in fund balance as the district responds to lost local sales-tax revenue and state funding formula changes.
The Woodland Park School District RE-2 Board of Education reviewed a proposed FY26 general-fund budget that assumes a roughly 10% reduction in workforce, no salary increases next year and sharply reduced capital and maintenance spending.
Courtney (finance staff) told the board the district’s per-pupil funding estimate from the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) is about $12,000 and that the state’s four‑year average pupil count used for funding is 1,775.7 students. Courtney reported total program funding of about $21.9 million. She said total local revenue was coming in above $13 million and the state share figure shown in the packet was about $8.5 million (figures presented by staff were taken from the CDE funding publication cited in the board packet).
The district’s expenditure assumptions include a workforce reduction across the organization expected to reduce salary and benefits costs by more than $1 million. The proposed budget does not include an across‑the‑board pay increase. Courtney said deferred…
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