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Box Elder board approves $3.8 million capital improvement budget for fiscal year 2026
Summary
The Box Elder School District Board of Education approved a $3.8 million capital improvement budget for fiscal year 2026 to cover prioritized building and facilities work; some larger projects were held for later review.
The Box Elder School District Board of Education on Tuesday approved a $3.8 million capital improvement budget for fiscal year 2026 to address prioritized building and property needs across the district.
Board members voted to fund high-, medium- and selected low-priority maintenance and improvement work identified by administrators and the district’s facilities advisory committee. District staff told the board the request was developed from input gathered over the past year from maintenance crews, building administrators and the facilities advisory committee.
The request reflected estimates prepared with the district’s construction manager. “He felt like we could ask for the 3,800,000.0,” a district facilities presenter said during the meeting. The amount is higher than last year’s approved capital budget of about $2.5 million, staff noted.
The facilities presentation included several items that were held for later consideration because of high estimated cost relative to other priorities. For example, an item described as a new bus drive to serve Bear River High School and Bear River Middle School — intended to reduce congestion east of the natatorium — was recommended to be deferred because the facilities advisory committee prioritized other work.
Board members asked whether the proposed list had been fully evaluated and were told all projects were reviewed and categorized as high, medium or low priority. The facilities presenter said some projects had been held over from the prior year’s planning because they were waiting on bond results; after that bond failed, several items returned to the list for this budget cycle.
The board made the motion to approve the fiscal year 2026 capital improvement budget of $3.8 million and approved it by voice vote. No roll-call tally was read into the record.
District staff said the amount requested would not cover every item on the master list, and that if the district chose to undertake all listed projects the total would exceed the requested amount. The board’s approval directs staff to proceed with projects within the approved funding level and continue planning for deferred projects.
Votes at the meeting on other items included course approvals, program changes and property actions; those actions are summarized in the district’s “Votes at a glance” report.
