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Yuma Union High School District finance director outlines end-of-year budget revision; formal adoption set as future action item
Summary
Brenda Guerin, the district's director of finance, presented an end-of-year revision for the 2024–25 budget that captures carryover funds, raising the M&O budget by about $6 million and the capital budget by roughly $2.6 million; the board was told the revision will be placed on an upcoming agenda for adoption.
Brenda Guerin, the Yuma Union High School District’s director of finance, presented an end-of-year revision to the district’s 2024–25 budget, saying the update captures carryover funds and adjusts figures the district must report after completing its Annual Financial Report.
“Now that we've done our AFR it just allows us to capture any carryover budget capacity and make those changes,” Guerin said as she walked the board through packet pages showing new limits and calculations.
Guerin said the district updated its average teacher salary for the year to $53,236 and reported the district’s maintenance and operations budget (M&O) increased by about $6 million to a new limit she identified as $115,119,088. She said the capital budget increased by roughly $2.6 million and cited a capital limit of $17,009,380 in the packet; the transcript contains a later, slightly different capital figure in another page of the packet.
Guerin also pointed to revised federal projects and grant totals, saying those grant allocations and carryover increased federal-project funding by approximately $4.4 million. On the calculation sheets she highlighted a one-time payment of $107,000 for the free-and-reduced-lunch program and district additional assistance and noted that this payment will not appear in next year’s baseline.
On special-education and related allocations, Guerin cited a per-student calculation of $792 and listed an allocation amount of $12,500,623. The packet text shows a classroom site fund number rendered in the transcript as 14,000,241,204; that figure’s formatting in the record appears inconsistent with other totals and is flagged in meeting materials as requiring verification.
Guerin described a new state fund-balance worksheet included in the packet, saying the worksheet is intended to show fund balances across M&O, special projects and capital and is informational for now. “This is something new that you probably hadn't seen before,” she said, urging members to review the summaries on the final pages.
She closed by telling the board the revision "will be on, as an action item for your adoption," indicating the board will consider formal adoption at a subsequent meeting.
An unidentified presiding official moved to adjourn; the motion was seconded and approved by voice vote. The board rose with the meeting scheduled to reconvene at 5:15.
