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Los Banos Unified board adopts 2025–26 budget, hears attendance and LCAP reports and approves multiple facilities resolutions
Summary
Trustees unanimously adopted the district’s 2025–26 budget, heard an attendance analysis showing chronic absenteeism near 24.5%, and approved a package of resolutions including CEQA exemptions for school modernizations and the education protection account resolution.
The Los Banos Unified School District Board of Trustees unanimously adopted the district’s 2025–26 budget on Tuesday after a public hearing. District staff presented a proposed budget that estimates roughly $170 million in revenue, $152 million in expenditures and an ending general fund balance of about $8.9 million.
The board’s budget presenter (staff member) explained that the May revision to state funding produced a cost-of-living adjustment of about 2.3 percent and that the district’s multi-year projections assume modest COLA and conservative enrollment. The presenter warned that reserves remain below the state’s 10 percent recommended threshold and flagged ongoing pension and transportation cost pressures.
Earlier in the meeting, the board heard an attendance presentation from the district’s vendor partner, SchoolStatus (introduced as Nick Gilstrap). The vendor…
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