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Board approves nearly $1 million capital budget for 2025–26, including pool electrical and classroom equipment
Summary
The board voted 6–0 to adopt the district’s 2025–26 capital budget, prioritizing routine classroom, technology and maintenance needs and a set of site requests including a pool lighting electrical upgrade, additional parking-lot lights at Little Mountain and weld tables and kilns for the high school.
The Monticello Public School District board unanimously approved its capital budget for fiscal 2025–26 at the March 3 meeting, allocating nearly $1 million for classroom, technology, maintenance and site-specific needs.
Director of Business Services Tina Burkholder presented a compiled list of site requests gathered from administrators. She said annual capital items remain the district’s top priority and noted long-running maintenance demand: “The demand for facility maintenance continues to exceed available funding,” Burkholder said.
Highlights of the fund allocations discussed by staff and approved by the board included: new welding tables and additional kilns for the high school welding and pottery programs; three additional parking-lot lights at Little Mountain Elementary to address darker morning conditions after start-time changes; corridor emergency and building custodial equipment replacements; pool lighting conversion from dry-niche to wet-niche fixtures, with the board hearing that the electrical circuitry costs for that conversion must be paid from capital funds; and an adjusted allocation that fully funds the technology director’s position from capital this year (previously part-funded).
Burkholder said administrators used a multi-year perspective to sequence projects and emphasized that the capital budget does not fully cover all district needs. The high-school pool lighting issue drew specific technical explanation from facilities staff: the existing dry-niche fixtures were leaking and the manufacturer of the gaskets is no longer in business, requiring conversion.
Board action and vote
Board member Melissa Curtis moved the capital budget; Casey Root seconded. The board voted by voice, recorded as 6–0 in favor.
Next steps
Burkholder said remaining funds unspent during the year are returned to the district office for reallocation. She and facilities staff will work with site administrators to schedule purchases and projects, and the district will track long-term facility maintenance (LTFM) projects separately in a 10-year plan.
