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Rochester board holds final budget deliberations; state budget delay, staffing cuts and grants drive uncertainty
Summary
During a third and final round of budget deliberations on May 1, the Rochester City School District board discussed a draft that eliminates fund-balance use, reflects staffing and contractual reductions, awaits a state budget extension and includes targeted changes tied to special-education and paraprofessional obligations.
The Rochester City School District Board of Education held its third and final round of budget deliberations on May 1 as the district prepared to vote on a proposed 2025–26 budget on May 6.
Superintendent Strickland told commissioners that the administration has submitted three versions of the draft budget to the state monitor and that the most recent draft "eliminates the need for the fund balance entirely." He said the second version had included a $16 million use of fund balance but the third version removed that need through reductions.
Strickland outlined the scale of reductions: "We had approximately 8,300,000 in staffing, which is about roughly 130 positions cut, 7,200,000.0 in contractual expenses…
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