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Blue Ridge Unified presents revised December budget, cites $2M carryforward and state funding delays
Summary
District staff presented a revised December budget showing about $2 million in carryforward, a drop in capital spending tied to declining enrollment, delayed K—3 reading-plan funding from the state and a $9,200 Prop 301 teacher payment with a split distribution, district presenter Kimberly said.
Blue Ridge Unified School District No. 32 held a public hearing on the revised December budget during which district presenter Kimberly said the district is carrying forward about $2 million and is adjusting this years average daily membership (ADM) as part of the routine December revision.
Kimberly, a district presenter, told the governing board the Group B revised rate is unusually low because "the state department has not approved any of the K-3 reading plans/budgets" and because a state software glitch prevented the districts free-and-reduced-lunch and gifted-rate data from uploading. "Our auditing team advised that we not put those numbers in until we actually get the money," she said.
Kimberly said carryforward fell by roughly $100,000 from the prior year to about $2,000,000 and that those reserves are "crucial this year because we no longer have ESSER funding," adding much of those funds will be used for salaries over the next two years. She also said the teacher experience index rose slightly, producing a small funding increase, while the districts capital budget is down about $29,000 amid declining enrollment.
On Prop 301, Kimberly said the district will offer teachers $9,200 under the classroom site fund. "Their first third of their payment will go out in this next payroll," she said; she described the remainder being paid in June contingent on completion of the Prop 301 requirements the board approved at a prior meeting (the transcripts phrasing about the split of remaining payments is ambiguous).
Board members did not ask follow-up questions during the presentation. The board president noted that a motion is not required to close a public hearing, and the hearing portion concluded without formal votes recorded on the budget during this session.
