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Board approves revised 2025–26 budget with monitoring on community-education fund
Summary
The school board approved the revised 2025–26 budget after a presentation noting typical adjustments from student counts and allocations; administration flagged a projected negative community education fund balance and said the general fund may need to assist if cash shortfalls occur.
The South Washington County Schools board on Thursday approved a revised 2025–26 budget following a presentation by Chris Blackburn, the district’s director of business services.
Blackburn told the board that districts commonly revise budgets after enrollment and state or federal allocation numbers are clearer and that the revised budget presented March 5 contained the significant variances from the preliminary budget. He said the materials before the board contained no new changes since the workshop presentation and recommended approval of the revised budget.
During questions, board members discussed a projected negative balance in the community education fund. Blackburn said community education can "ride" a negative fund balance for a period but cautioned that if the program lacks cash resources the general fund would be required to step in; Director Winchell and the audit presenter Aaron Nielsen were cited as working on related fund-balance and restricted-fund issues. On nutrition services, Blackburn said the revised budget includes cash expenditures anticipated to be incurred and completed in the current fiscal year; larger equipment purchases expected later would be reflected when incurred under modified accrual accounting.
The board moved and seconded approval (motion by Simi, seconded by Louise) and the motion passed; no roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript for this item.
The transcript does not provide an overall dollar total for the revised budget in the public remarks; board materials referenced at the meeting were said to contain the detailed numbers.
