A staff member identified as Worley briefed the Pittsylvania County School Board on the implications of Governor Youngkin's introduced 2026-28 biennial budget during the Jan. 13 meeting, highlighting revenue updates, employer retirement-rate reductions and local staffing requests.

Worley said the introduced budget updates direct aid formulas and revises sales-tax and lottery-revenue estimates. She said employer contribution rates for the Virginia Retirement System decreased, which the district expects to be a savings. Worley told the board the introduced budget includes state funding for a 2% compensation increase for SOQ positions, effective July 1 of each year of the biennium.

Worley provided an ADM (average daily membership) projection of 7,068.7 students for the next school year, about 300 fewer students than the current budget assumed, and said the district has more than $30 million in position and program requests for the coming year; depending on county funding, the district expected to have about $2 million in new local money to allocate. She identified two recent additions to the request list: four middle-school band directors and one school psychologist.

Worley told the board that crossover in the General Assembly was scheduled for Feb. 6 and that the board would soon receive the House and Senate budgets for comparative review. She invited questions but provided the update primarily as an overview; board members did not enact budget actions during the meeting.

Next steps: staff will track the budget process through crossover and report adjustments when the House and Senate versions are available.