Nooksack Valley board adopts 2025–26 budget after brief hearing

The Nooksack Valley School Board adopted the district’s 2025–26 budget on Aug. 21 after a brief public hearing and a short presentation by Superintendent Matt Galley.

Superintendent Matt Galley opened the budget hearing at 7:22 p.m. and gave a brief presentation on the development of the 2025–26 budget; the minutes state he “noted the highlights below,” but the highlights themselves are not included in the recorded minutes. Director Ty Elmendorf reconvened regular session at 7:27 p.m., and Steve Jones moved that the board approve Resolution No. 3 to adopt the budget; Halli Kimball seconded and the motion carried, 4-0, as recorded in the minutes.

The adoption follows earlier routine budget actions recorded in the same meeting, including approval of Resolution 12 (General Fund budget extension). The minutes record Resolution 12 as carried 5-0; attendance earlier in the minutes lists Director Tanya Silves as absent. The minutes do not explain that tally difference; the article reports the vote totals as recorded in the board minutes.

Why it matters: adoption of the district budget sets the spending plan for operations, staffing and programs for the coming school year and formalizes fund allocations for the General Fund and associated accounts. The minutes do not include line-item budget text or the presentation highlights, so details about program-level changes and specific budget increases or cuts are not specified in the record.

What happened next: the minutes show no further formal budget debate; the superintendent’s report section says “No formal report.”