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Community pushes back as board reviews draft 2025–26 budget and reserve projections
Summary
Public commenters at the June 3 meeting urged the board to prioritize fiscal transparency, questioned reserve projections and criticized perceived favoritism for selective programs such as USI/OCSCS. Speakers asked for full budget documents online and requested meetings to examine site-level impacts.
At the public hearings on the proposed 2025–26 budget and the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), community members pressed the board for clearer financial transparency and questioned how reserve reductions and program-specific funding decisions were being made.
A resident who reviewed draft budget documents said more than $13 million more in reserves appears to be drawn across two years than the March projection,…
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