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Superintendent outlines FY26 budget timeline and ULA/staff‑reduction deadlines
Summary
Superintendent Gross presented an FY26 planning timeline noting key dates for contractual ULA notifications (April 15), required June 30 budget/ULA completion and a February target for preliminary reductions; board members were warned that late legislative action complicates assumptions.
Superintendent Gross presented a preliminary FY26 budget timeline to the board, describing three target dates the district must observe and highlighting the interaction between legislative uncertainty and local planning.
Gross said the district must meet specific contractual and statutory deadlines, including an April 15 contractual date tied to teacher group ULA notification, a June 30 statutory deadline for completing the budget/ULA process, and a February target for preliminary budget reductions. He emphasized the need to develop tight fiscal assumptions as early as possible because late or incomplete legislative action at the state level would complicate those assumptions.
The superintendent reviewed process steps: staff and union notification cycles, community and staff informational meetings, preliminary reduction targets in February, formal reduction proposals in March and board approval steps in late March/April with final ULA actions by early June. He warned that if hearings on ULA notices are requested, the schedule may need to be extended.
Board discussion raised the risk that the state legislature might not finish its session on time, increasing uncertainty about compensatory and unemployment funding that district staff said could create budget pressures in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
What’s next: administration will use the timeline to develop reduction scenarios and engage staff, unions and the community before the board takes any formal action.
