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Wayzata presents preliminary 2025'26 budget; enrollment growth cited as main revenue driver
Summary
Finance Director David Draskovich presented Wayzata Public Schools' preliminary fiscal 2025'26 budget Monday, saying enrollment growth is the largest single revenue driver while also flagging risks from special-education funding, transportation reimbursement changes and pending negotiations.
Finance Director David Draskovich presented Wayzata Public Schools' preliminary budget for fiscal year 2025'26 at the board work session Monday, outlining revenue and expenditure assumptions, enrollment projections and risks to the district's financial outlook.
Draskovich told the board the budget uses a projected enrollment of 13,186 students for 2025'26, up from a revised FY2024'25 figure the presentation cited as 12,760 (the transcript text reported 12,076 and an ``increase of 426'kids'''; the presentation emphasized a 426-student enrollment increase driving revenue growth). He said that enrollment growth drives roughly $3.1 million of the preliminary revenue increase and that overall the state general-education formula was assumed to rise 2.74% for 2025'26.
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