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Antioch Unified staff outline $3 million target to balance 2025–26 budget, say extensive certificated layoffs not expected
Summary
District staff told trustees a January LCFF and multi‑year budget overview shows revenue variables and a roughly $3.0 million target in ongoing reductions for 2025–26. Staff proposed using attrition, vacancy management and restricted funds to limit classroom impacts and said certificated layoffs are unlikely at this time.
Antioch Unified district staff on Tuesday briefed the Board of Trustees on a January update to the 2024–25 second interim and the multiyear budget outlook, saying the district is targeting about $3,000,000 in ongoing reductions for the 2025–26 year.
The presentation walked trustees through the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), how the state’s cost‑of‑living adjustment (COLA) is applied to base grants, and the difference between actual average daily attendance (ADA) and funded ADA. The presenter said those variables — COLA, unduplicated pupil percentage and ADA — combine to make district revenue volatile from year to year.
"This is like a concerted effort of information that has been put together by all of cabinet as well as, director, Carrie Wells and Mia Cancio," the presenter said, describing the update as a high‑level, not exhaustive,…
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