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Acadia Parish board adopts 2024–25 operating budget, projects $90.1 million in general-fund revenue
Summary
The Acadia Parish School Board adopted its 2024–25 operating budget for 07/01/2024–06/30/2025, projecting $90,104,503 in general-fund revenue and a starting deficit of $680,762; the board also approved final revisions to the prior year budget at the same meeting.
The Acadia Parish School Board voted to adopt the district'019s 2024–25 operating budget at its August meeting, a finance presentation showed. District finance staff said the general fund is projected to collect $90,104,503 for the fiscal year and that the budget begins with a $680,762 shortfall.
The finance presentation broke the revenue into three sources, noting projected state revenue of $58,415,494, local revenue of roughly $25.1 million and other funding of about $6.59 million. The presenter said the budgeted revenues are about $2.16 million lower than last year, primarily because ESSER-related indirect-cost revenue is ending in September 2024.
Board members moved and adopted the operating-budget resolution by voice vote after a brief public hearing earlier in the meeting. The board also approved a final revision of the 2023–24 budget at the same session; finance staff said collections for that year came in about $1.7 million higher than the board initially adopted because of stronger property-tax and investment income collections and higher-than-expected indirect-cost receipts.
"The total projected revenue for the general fund for this fiscal year is $90,104,503," a district finance presenter said during the budget review.
Why it matters: the budget allocates spending for general, special-revenue and federal funds and sets operating priorities for classrooms, transportation and facilities. Finance staff told the board they trimmed expenditures by roughly $445,000 compared with the prior year—2802023—28094and characterized the modest opening deficit as manageable given the expected loss of one-time ESSER revenue.
Votes at a glance - Approval of minutes (07/09/2024 regular + 06/26/2024 special): motion approved by voice vote. - Resolution calling special elections (Church Pointe SD #6; Allfield Consolidated SD #8; Fifth Ward SD #7): motion by Mr. Richard, second by Mr. Higginbotham; approved by voice vote. - Motion to conduct public hearing on 2024—2809325 budget: motion by Ms. Higginbotham, second by Mr. Jones; approved by voice vote. - Adoption of the 2024—2809325 operating budget: motion moved and adopted by voice vote. - Final revision of 2023—2809324 budget: motion moved and adopted by voice vote. - Substantial completion (ESSER E-010 Church Pointe HS ag classroom) and Change Order #1 (EDash004 Martin Pellegon Elementary multipurpose building): both motions approved by voice vote.
Board next steps: staff said detailed school-level data packages and a presentation of cleaned LEAP accountability data will follow when the state—28099s cleaned results are released in the fall. The board did not set any additional hearings or budget amendments at the meeting.
