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RCSD staff outline $39M preliminary budget gap; board hears revenue and cost forecasts
Summary
Superintendent Rosser and Chief McDowell presented preliminary 2026–27 budget assumptions to the Rochester Board of Education, projecting roughly $17.7M in additional revenue (including ~$17M in foundation aid) but estimating a structural deficit of about $39M, with staff planning a Feb. 26 balanced-budget presentation and March 1 submission to the state monitor.
Superintendent Malik Rosser and budget director Tom McDowell told the Rochester Board of Education on Dec. 18 that the district expects modest revenue growth next year but also rising costs that together produced a preliminary structural deficit of roughly $39 million.
McDowell said the district projects a $17.7 million increase in revenue driven largely by an anticipated foundation-aid bump (about $17 million in the current forecast), an increase in transportation aid and small Medicaid adjustments. He…
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