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Kenosha Unified projects $4.3 million preliminary shortfall; electors approve maximum tax levy
Summary
Kenosha Unified School District staff presented a preliminary 2025–26 budget showing a $4.3M projected deficit driven by a roughly $7M drop in state aid and declining enrollment; the district recommended and electors adopted the maximum allowable tax levy to cover revenue-limit capacity.
Tara Kamden, chief financial officer for Kenosha Unified School District (KUSD), told electors the district’s preliminary 2025–26 budget shows $261.4 million in projected revenues against $265.7 million in projected expenses — a $4.3 million snapshot deficit if all expenditures occur as currently budgeted.
Kamden said the district closed 2024–25 with roughly $270 million in revenues and $268 million in expenses, leaving a positive change in fund balance of about $2.2 million, but that roughly $3.0 million of required grants and donations were authorized for 2024–25 and remain unspent and will be requested to carry over into 2025–26. “We had a change in fund balance, a positive change in fund balance of just over $2,000,000,” Kamden said.
She attributed most of the pressure on KUSD’s budget to the…
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