SFUSD deputy superintendent lays out multi‑year shortfalls and fiscal stabilization options

Deputy Superintendent of Business Services Chris Mompanitas told the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education at a special March 4 study session that the district faces a structural budget shortfall and presented a multi‑year projection and a three‑page Fiscal Stabilization Plan (FSP) to address it.

The presentation, delivered as staff introduced interim executive director Jennifer Shuster, CFO Niru Jayaraman and Director of Position Control Daniel Muñoz, framed revenues as roughly 4 percent federal, about 68 percent state (LCFF and related funds) and about 28 percent local. Mompanitas said the district uses state planning factors and an enrollment‑based calculator to set revenue assumptions and that staff is now using updated governor’s budget figures for COLA and other estimates.

Why it matters: the district is funded on average daily attendance (ADA), not raw enrollment, and Mompanitas highlighted a material gap: funded ADA near 44,790 vs. enrollment around 48,768. That attendance gap and a decline in the district’s unduplicated pupil percentage (about 60 percent this year, with a 55 percent threshold for some concentration funding) reduce state revenue and complicate staffing and program decisions.

Staff…