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Marysville trustees open LCAP and budget hearings; staff outline $36.6M LCAP and multi‑year deficit projections
Summary
District staff presented the 2025–26 Local Control and Accountability Plan ($36.6 million) and the proposed budget, noted the district met the 26% unduplicated pupil target, and warned of projected multi‑year deficit spending pending state budget changes.
District staff presented the Marysville Joint Unified School District’s Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) and the proposed 2025–26 budget during public hearings Tuesday night, outlining program priorities, several staffing adjustments and multi‑year financial projections.
Lori Gay, director of data and student improvement, introduced staff recommendations including adoption of a K–2 Reading Difficulties Risk Screener for 2025–26. "The LCAP is our tool for setting goals, planning actions and leveraging resources to meet those goals," she said.
Presenters said the combined LCAP — which includes LCFF, learning recovery and some federal and state grants — totals $36.6 million for 2025–26, with $11.3 million budgeted for Goal 1 (academic supports) and other allocations across safety, college and career, EL supports, home‑school communication and special education. Staff reported the district met its unduplicated pupil expenditure target of roughly 26.037% and noted adjustments to programs and staffing, including elimination of some previously funded positions, additions for graduate profile implementation and reallocation for CTE expansions.
Chief business presenter Jennifer Passaglia walked trustees through revenue and expenditure projections: the district projects average daily attendance (ADA) of about 9,496, LCFF per ADA of $14,657, and an overall multi‑year projected deficit with an estimated ending fund balance decline from roughly $59.2 million to $45.7 million (a projected deficit‑spend of about $14 million next year). Passaglia recommended a positive certification while acknowledging state fiscal uncertainty in the governor’s May revise and potential changes at the enacted budget.
The board approved several routine actions during the meeting: adoption of May 27, 2025 meeting minutes; approval of the consent agenda (with one pulled item, 15.3, ratifying a memorandum of understanding with California State University, Chico, which passed after a trustee abstained on the pull vote due to a stated conflict); adoption of updated board policies for sections 000, 2000 and 9000 on second read; and approval of a job description and salary adjustment for the Transportation Secretary.
Union testimony during the LCAP hearing raised procedural and program concerns: Angela Steagall, president of the teachers union, warned that VAPA paraeducators cannot be counted as certificated staff for Proposition 28 requirements and urged the district to replace Edmentum for credit recovery, calling it a "credit mill." Trustees did not adopt the LCAP at the meeting; staff said the district will bring the final LCAP for adoption at the next regular board meeting on June 24.
No new formal policy changes beyond the adopted regulations were enacted; the hearing provides the basis for final budget and LCAP adoption at subsequent meetings.
