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Creighton board adopts December budget revision after ADE flags missing student counts
Summary
Creighton Elementary District governing board members adopted Revision No. 2 to the fiscal 2024–25 maintenance-and-operations and additional district budgets after the Arizona Department of Education notified the district its October submission exceeded statutory budget limits because key student data had not uploaded.
Creighton Elementary District governing board members adopted Revision No. 2 to the district’s fiscal year 2024–25 maintenance-and-operations and district additional system budgets after the Arizona Department of Education notified the district that its reported budget exceeded the statutory limit.
The revision was presented by a district staff member identified in the meeting as Miss Shapiro, who told the board the ADE review in October found the district’s budget exceeded the limit by about $494,000 and required a December revision under Arizona Revised Statutes 15-905(E). Shapiro said the overage resulted primarily from student-data counts that were not included in the district’s October submission — notably free-and-reduced-price-lunch eligibility and special-education preschool counts that did not upload to ADE on time because of vendor/system integration issues and a late change in ADE’s submission rules. She said the vendor and the district’s IT staff corrected the uploads in November and December, and the corrected counts are reflected in Revision No. 2.
The board moved and adopted the revision by voice vote during the meeting following Shapiro’s presentation. The motion cited ARS 15-905(E) and the ADE letter as the legal basis for making the revision. No separate roll-call tally was recorded in the meeting transcript; the clerk announced the motion passed by assent.
Why it matters: Arizona law requires districts whose reported budgets exceed statutorily set limits to adopt a revision within a specified timeframe. The revision shifts the district’s official reported totals to match the corrected enrollment- and program-related counts ADE uses for its fiscal-limit review. District staff said they will bring a further revision in May with final year-end numbers.
What the board said and next steps: Superintendent Mann turned the hearing to Miss Shapiro for the presentation and later noted the county/state correspondence triggered the revision. Board members thanked staff for the explanation and offered one clerical correction to the published materials (a typographical note about "streamed on YouTube"). District staff said any remaining changes will be reflected in the May revision when final student counts and fiscal carryforwards are known.
Documentary details: The board cited Arizona Revised Statutes 15-905(E) and a December letter from the Arizona Department of Education as the basis for the revision. The district plans to revisit and finalize numbers during the annual May budget-revision cycle.
