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Budget director frames FY27 priorities as enrollment drops and formula changes loom
Summary
Poudre School District budget director Brian Gustafson outlined the FY27 planning timeline and warned that declining enrollment, the new state school finance formula and the phase-out of averaging will accelerate funding pressure; staff will use updated January projections in student-based budgeting.
Poudre School District’s budget director, Brian Gustafson, briefed the board on the district’s FY27 budget process on Dec. 9 and stressed that declining enrollment and changes to the state school finance formula are the dominant fiscal challenges for the coming year.
Gustafson described the student-based budgeting cycle the district follows: enrollment projections arrive in January, allocations to schools are typically calculated by mid-February, and schools complete comprehensive planning by March. He said the October…
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