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Elkhart Community Schools projects $16 million structural gap; administration says wage reductions required to balance 2026 budget
Summary
At a Dec. board meeting, the district’s finance lead said a $16,000,000 shortfall for the 2026 budget will require significant wage-and-benefit reductions, even if a bond issue moves forward; administrators described $93,000,000 in projected receipts and recent transfers between funds.
Miss Ross, a district staff member presenting the financial update, told the board the district is projecting about $93,000,000 in total receipts for the 2025–26 school year and has identified a $6,000,000 revenue reduction from the initial budget notice.
That adjustment, Miss Ross said, required rethinking transfers from the education fund to the operations fund and trimming projected transfers to help preserve near-term cash balances. She reported an education-fund cash balance in November of roughly $2,300,000 after transfers and an operations-fund balance of about $1,900,000, for total cash across funds of about $11,000,000.
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