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Board reviews first 2025–26 budget revision showing higher revenues and one-time expenditures

Okemos Public Schools Board of Education · November 13, 2025
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Summary

The district’s first budget revision for 2025–26 projects increased revenues—largely from foundation funding and special-education adjustments—and one-time expenditures (mold remediation, utilities, staffing), raising the projected general-fund balance to about $9.79 million (4.2% of expenditures); trustees will be asked to take action at the next meeting.

Executive Director Liz Lentz presented the district’s first revision to the 2025–26 general fund budget, reporting a net revenue increase and higher one-time costs that together raise the district’s projected ending fund balance.

Lentz said revised revenue assumptions include a foundation increase that added roughly $658,000 to revenues, a final fall enrollment adjustment of +59…

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