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Rochester board amends 2025–26 budget calendar after budget book delay
Summary
The Rochester City School District Board of Education voted to amend its 2025–26 budget calendar after the budget book was not available on the originally scheduled dates; board members were told the delay was linked to a PeopleSoft-to-Oracle software migration.
The Rochester City School District Board of Education on March 18 approved an amendment to the district's 2025'26 budget calendar to change the dates for question-and-answer rounds after the budget book was not available on the originally scheduled dates.
Clerk Wynne told the board the amendment was needed because "the budget book was not, available to you all at the date we had initially anticipated. The question and answer portion is based on those dates. And so we needed to update that." The board voted by voice; Vice President Malloy moved the amendment and Commissioner Griffin seconded it.
The change was posted on the district's BoardDocs portal, Clerk Wynne said, and commissioners were told the draft budget is available. Interim Superintendent Strickland added that the district's finance team is completing a software migration from PeopleSoft to Oracle and that staff are balancing that work with state meetings and other demands. Strickland said the migration effort, and the workload it has created for staff, contributed to the delay.
Why it matters: adjusting the calendar shifts when commissioners can submit and receive responses to budget questions, which affects the board's ability to review and publicly monitor the district's financial plans ahead of formal adoption.
What happened next: after the amendment was approved, the meeting moved into a scheduled governance workshop led by the Council for Great City Schools. The board did not take other formal budget votes during the session.
Votes at a glance: - Motion: Amend the 2025'26 budget calendar to adjust question-and-answer dates tied to the budget book availability. Moved by Vice President Malloy; seconded by Commissioner Griffin. Outcome: approved (voice vote recorded as "aye"; individual roll-call tallies not recorded in the meeting transcript).
Source material: Board discussion and Clerk Wynne's explanation were recorded in the March 18 work session; the amended calendar was uploaded to the district's BoardDocs system, Clerk Wynne said.
