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Phoenix Elementary projects nearly $2.7 million drop in next year's general budget limit as enrollment falls
Summary
At a budget study session board members were told the district's weighted ADM has declined to about 6,100, driving a projected M&O general budget limit drop from $50.9 million to roughly $48.2 million for FY27; staff outlined cost-control options and long-term planning steps.
Phoenix Elementary District officials told the governing board that a sustained enrollment decline is shrinking state funding and will reduce the district's maintenance-and-operations (M&O) general budget limit by roughly $2.7 million for fiscal year 2027.
"When we adopted our budget, we were working a year ago on this year's budget. The weighted ADM, we thought we were gonna be around 6,611. Right now, we're at 6,100," Mr. Whittle, the district's finance presenter, told the board during the March study session.
The drop in weighted average daily membership (ADM) feeds directly into the revenue control limit (RCL) and the M&O general budget limit. Mr. Whittle showed the board that the district's adopted RCL was about $35 million,…
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