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ABC Unified adopts 2025–26 budget projecting $17.2 million deficit; reserves at risk by 2027–28
Summary
Trustees adopted the 2025–26 budget and LCAP at the June 17 meeting. District staff projected a $17.2 million deficit for 2025–26 and warned that, absent corrective actions, restricted reserves could be exhausted by the 2027–28 school year.
The ABC Unified School District Board of Education approved the district’s 2025–26 budget and Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) at its June 17 meeting, despite a multi‑hour debate earlier in the evening on a staff plan to consolidate schools.
District staff presented the revenue and expenditure assumptions behind the budget and a required three‑year projection. For 2025–26 the district estimated total general‑fund revenues of approximately $314.3 million and total expenditures (including transfers) of approximately $336.6 million, producing a projected deficit‑spend of about $17.2 million. Staff told…
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