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Janesville board approves 2025–26 budget assumptions, citing conservative revenue and cost projections
Summary
The Board of Education unanimously approved the district's budget development assumptions for 2025–26, which include conservative revenue projections, a 3% CPI‑based wage assumption and a 12.5% health‑insurance estimate; administrators said paying off WRS debt improved the district's forecast.
The Janesville School District Board of Education on Jan. 14 unanimously approved the district’s 2025–26 budget development assumptions, adopting conservative revenue and expense assumptions ahead of a deeper budget workshop at the end of the month.
Business and finance staff presented a set of assumptions the board will use to develop the 2025–26 budget, including an assumed per‑member revenue limit increase of $325, a low revenue‑limit floor of $11,000 and an estimated membership of roughly 9,100. The presentation said the district is modeling a 3% CPI‑based wage increase (net assumed approximately 2.5 percent), a 12.5% increase for health…
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