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Robbinsdale board reviews preliminary 2026 budget as officials warn of multimillion‑dollar shortfall
Summary
Superintendent and CFO presented a draft 2025‑26 preliminary budget showing a structural shortfall, reductions already implemented, and continuing uncertainty from the state legislature; directors sought details about service‑model impacts and community input.
Robbinsdale Area Schools staff presented the district’s 2025–26 preliminary budget at the June 3 work session, telling the board the draft reflects a significant shortfall and a package of reductions the administration has already put into the plan.
Superintendent Dr. Stalo and finance staff summarized assumptions driving the draft: a 2.74% general education formula factor, enrollment projections, estimated contract steps but not unsettled contract parameters, and a decline in federal ESSER pandemic funds. Staff said the draft still assumes an increase in general education aid despite declining enrollment, and that agreed employee steps were included but not unsettled contract terms.
Nut graf: board members pressed staff for more explicit connections between the district’s service‑delivery model changes and the…
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