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Yuma Union High School District updates 2025–26 budget forms, flags $10 million carryover
Summary
The Yuma Union High School District presented revisions to its 2025–26 budget to reflect new state budget forms and a 2% funding increase from the state legislature; the district reported $106,000,976 for maintenance and operations, $11,087,304 for capital, and a $10,000,000 carryover contingency.
Yuma Union High School District (4507) officials presented proposed revisions to the district’s 2025–26 budget at a special public hearing, saying the changes update the district’s adopted budget onto the state’s new budget forms and incorporate a legislated 2% funding increase.
"This revision really is just updating what our budget that we adopted and putting it on the new forms, and it also includes our 2% increase in funding that the legislature passed when they passed the budget," said Bridal Guerra, the district's director of finance. Guerra led the evening’s presentation and answered board members’ questions.
Guerra said the district updated the cover page to show the current tax rate and revised budget limits. The district’s maintenance and operations budget was reported as $106,000,976, about $1.3 million higher than the previously adopted figure, and the capital budget was listed as $11,087,304, an increase of roughly $55,000.
She also described a newly adopted board policy that designates $10,000,000 in carryover contingency. "What we put in that policy is dollars 10,000,000 in carryover," Guerra said, adding that this amount is separated out on the forms and is expected to be carried forward rather than budgeted for immediate expenditure.
Guerra said enrollment figures were updated where current data were available. The director invited board members to ask questions on specific pages of the printed revision; no substantive questions were raised. "That concludes my report," she said.
Board members then moved to adjourn the special hearing. The motion to adjourn was seconded, the board voiced 'Aye,' and the motion carried. The board announced it would reconvene at 05:15.
The hearing record does not show a formal vote adopting the revised budget during the special meeting; the presentation served as the district’s public hearing on the proposed updates to the budget forms and funding figures.
