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DC Everest outlines balanced $82.2M 2025-26 budget amid enrollment decline, special-ed aid boost
Summary
District staff presented a balanced $82.2 million budget for 2025-26, citing a three-year membership average of 5,682 and a roughly $900,000 estimated increase in special-education aid under the state budget. Officials said they will use debt defeasance and fund transfers to stabilize the levy while planning capital work, including donation-funded
At a budget hearing in October 2025, district staff presented a balanced $82,200,000 budget for the 2025-26 school year and outlined how state budget changes and declining enrollment affect local revenue and spending. Presiding Officer opened the hearing and turned the presentation over to Kelly of the district finance team, who guided attendees through revenue limits, fund balances and planned capital work.
Kelly said the 2025 state budget included a $325 per-pupil revenue-limit adjustment and left the low-revenue ceiling near $11,000, but did not change how equalization aid is calculated. "A big change was an increase to our special education categorical aid…that's gonna result in almost a $900,000 increase in special education aid," Kelly said, while noting final distributions may be lower than the statutory percentage.
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