Yuma Union High School District reviews proposed 2025–26 budget; M&O at $104.6 million
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Summary
Director of Finance Brenda Guerra presented the district's proposed 2025–26 budget, listing a $104,621,240 maintenance-and-operations total, $11,032,089 in unrestricted capital outlay and about $10,000,000 in federal grants; board members praised a 3% starting-salary increase. No substantive votes were taken beyond adjourning.
YUMA — Brenda Guerra, the Yuma Union High School District’s director of finance, reviewed the district’s proposed 2025–26 budget during a public hearing, saying the maintenance-and-operations budget is $104,621,240 and the unrestricted capital outlay is $11,032,089.
Guerra said the district also budgeted roughly $10,000,000 in federal grants and that some figures remain enrollment-dependent. “This is the same budget that we proposed last month and that you approved last month,” she said, adding the district proposed on preliminary forms because updated forms were not yet available and that “a revision on the new forms with the new budget will be forthcoming in the next few months.”
The overview matters because the budget sets staffing, classroom and capital spending across the district. Guerra walked the board through packet pages: a maintenance-and-operations (M&O) worksheet showing the $104,621,240 total; a classroom site fund based on $842 per weighted average daily membership; calculation pages for how the M&O and capital figures were derived; and a new fund-balance summary listing estimated amounts for each district fund.
On classroom-site funding, Guerra said the rate is $842 per weighted ADM and noted the budgeted classroom-site amount listed in the packet as “13,641 and 9,” which she said could change with enrollment updates. She also noted that some tax-rate fields in the packet reflected prior-year amounts and would be updated once new rates were released.
An unidentified board member thanked district staff for the starting-salary increase, saying, “I wanted to thank you all in your department for giving our starting salaries, everybody a 3% increase.” Guerra closed the presentation, and the board moved on to routine process questions.
No formal policy votes on the budget occurred at the hearing. The only formal motion recorded in the transcript was procedural: a motion to adjourn, which the minutes recorded as “Motion made by Christie, seconded by Carlos, to adjourn.” The motion carried on a voice vote; the transcript does not specify a numerical tally. The presiding officer announced the board would return in five minutes.
What happens next: Guerra said a revised budget form and updated figures will be filed in the coming months; the district’s regular board meeting will consider adoption on the posted agenda.
