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Decatur SD 61 board adopts tentative amended FY26 budget, approves bond abatements and vehicle purchase; tables tolling agreement
Summary
At its Jan. 13 meeting, the Decatur Public Schools District 61 Board of Education adopted a tentative amended FY26 budget, approved two resolutions abating 2025 taxes for bond debt service, authorized a vehicle purchase and approved multiple personnel items; the board tabled a tolling agreement connected to Johns Hill construction deficiencies.
The Decatur Public Schools District 61 Board of Education approved a slate of budget, personnel and contract actions at its Jan. 13 meeting while tabling a tolling agreement tied to a construction deficiency.
The board adopted a tentative amended fiscal year 2026 budget after administration reported payroll-coding errors that had temporarily inflated administrative-cost figures. District administrator Doctor Curry said four recently misclassified employees had been recoded and additional placeholder line items totaling about $150,000–$200,000 were removed, which will bring the Education Fund and the administrative-cost worksheet back into expected ranges.
The board also adopted two tax-abatement resolutions to pay debt service on the district's general-obligation bonds. Doctor Curry described the instruments as alternate-revenue bonds that the district offsets with sales-tax revenue; he said one earlier bond had an original principal around $4,600,000 and…
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