Bear Valley Unified staff report widened 2025–26 deficit, urge attrition-based cuts if one-time state funds don’t appear

Bear Valley Unified School District officials presented their second interim financial report and warned the board on Wednesday that the district is operating with planned deficit spending and could need staff reductions through attrition if anticipated one-time state funding does not arrive.

Dr. Crow, who introduced the second interim presentation, told trustees the district is maintaining a positive certification for the 2025–26 fiscal year but that revenues and expenditures shifted slightly between the first and second interim. She said Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) revenues fell by about $73,000 after an attendance audit, Title I funding rose by roughly $18,000, and restricted lottery apportionments fell about $21,000; redevelopment (RDA) receipts rose and helped push overall revenues up about $17,000 from the prior interim.

On the expenditure side, Dr. Crow said certificated salaries increased in part because items previously budgeted as travel and conference costs were reclassified to extra-duty and salary lines (roughly $60,000). Classified salaries rose by about $120,000, driven mainly by two additional 1:1 special-education aides and the…