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Budget committee approves 2025–26 budget after line‑item corrections, raises contingency to $5.68 million
Summary
The Klamath County SD budget committee approved the 2025–26 budget as amended, increasing the contingency to $5,677,122.78 and adjusting multiple account lines. Members also discussed teacher staffing, declining enrollment, facility repairs at Gilchrist and Lost River Gym, and summer programming funding.
The Klamath County School District budget committee approved the 2025–26 budget as amended at its May 14 meeting, after staff reported corrections to several line items and an increase to the district contingency reserve.
Staff member reported the corrections, saying, “So that changed the contingency amount to $5,677,122.78,” and walked the committee through adjustments to Fund 100 and several account codes, including additions to the 121 account for elementary and high school items and a $10,000 entry for taxable meals.
The vote came after a review of numerical corrections that staff said were the result of an earlier data-entry discrepancy. The motion to approve the 2025–26 budget with the spread modifications was moved by the Chair and seconded; the committee approved the motion by voice vote.
Why it matters: the committee’s actions finalize spending priorities and reserve levels that set the district’s starting fund balance for the…
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