Huron School District details roughly $598,000 in cuts to balance 2025–26 general fund

Huron — Administrators presented the Huron Board of Education with a plan to reduce about $598,000 from the district’s 2025–26 general fund budget, saying the package avoids staff layoffs this year by shifting some positions to grant funding and cutting travel, supplies and other discretionary spending.

“The administrative team has worked extremely hard to find cuts to this year's budget, ensuring that no employees have lost their jobs,” Superintendent Dr. Steinhoff said as he opened the budget update.

The cuts stem from an administrative goal Mr. Christopherson described as $592,000 — roughly 3% of the district’s controllable general fund — and officials said they reviewed each budget category to identify reductions that could be made without breaking teacher contracts or benefit obligations. “Our goal is $592,000 to reduce from this year's general fund budget which works out to be about 3% of our general fund budget,” Mr. Christopherson said.

Key examples listed by administrators include:

- Buchanan Elementary: about $40,500 in reductions, including moving half of a paraeducator to Title I grant funding, smaller cuts to supplies and…