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School board approves revised FY25 budget; several routine items, policies and compensation changes also passed
Summary
The Red Wing School Board approved a revised fiscal year 2025 budget that increases general-fund revenue projections and reduces projected expenditures relative to the adopted budget; the board also approved routine consent items, donations, policy updates, a teacher seniority list and changes to board compensation.
The Red Wing School Board voted Tuesday to approve a revised fiscal year 2025 budget and a package of routine actions and policy updates.
District staff presented a multi-page revised budget showing an overall recommended increase to general-fund revenues of $379,003.45 and increased general-fund expenditures of $79,003.45 compared with the adopted budget. Staff said adjustments reflect federal grant carryovers, a recalculation of special-education aid that offset part of a decline in average daily membership, and new student-activity account funding. With those changes, the district projects adding $175,000 to the general-fund balance this year (a net swing of about $300,000 from the previously adopted plan), according to staff presentation.
The budget presentation noted an estimated enrollment decline of about 79.77 ADMs for the current year, and staff described how that figure impacts state aid calculations and local revenues. The presenter also described adjustments tied to the closure of an on-site health clinic and transition to a third-party provider (named in the packet as Kavira), which altered some internal-service fund calculations.
After discussion the board approved the revised FY25 budget on a voice vote.
Votes at a glance
- Consent agenda: Approved on a voice vote (motion carried).
- Donations and grants acceptance: Board accepted a list of donations, including a $1,000 gift from Fidelity Charitable for the high school robotics team and several smaller community donations. Roll call recorded the measure as carrying 5–2–0.
- Teacher seniority list: Approved on voice vote (motion carried).
- Revised fiscal year 2025 budget: Approved on voice vote after discussion (motion carried).
- MSBA policy updates (policies 522, 619, 620, 703, 302 and related revisions): Approved on voice vote (motion carried).
- School board compensation changes: Board approved raising the vice-chair stipend to match the clerk and increasing the negotiations meeting pay to $50; motion carried on voice vote.
Board members and staff said audited final fund balances, enrollment updates and federal-grant carryovers all fed into the revision. Staff noted that some revenues that arrived after the adopted budget — for example donations tracked in a separate fund that crosswalk into the general fund — were added in the revision.
During the presentation, finance staff (identified in the meeting as Lisa) walked trustees through multi-year audited comparisons and explained the revised assumptions for enrollment, grants and expenditures. The board approved the revision and several other routine items during the business portion of the meeting.
Other items discussed but not acted on included plans for the Jefferson Building property (staff said they expect to have a request-for-proposal prepared in April) and a follow-up on bus safety issues raised in a separate public presentation.
