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Richland One board adopts FY27 budget, approves new operations and assessment specialist
Summary
The Richland One board approved a fiscal 2027 budget projecting a modest surplus and voted to add a full-time operations and assessment specialist to manage MTSS, testing and technology support. Board members requested a side-by-side comparison of year-to-year changes and a full staffing list for sustainability review.
The Richland One Board of Commissioners approved the fiscal 2027 budget and added a full-time operations and assessment specialist during its April 15, 2026, meeting held via Microsoft Teams.
Britney Sloan, the district's finance representative from Prestige, told the board the budget's revenue assumptions result in a proposed total just over $2.1 million and that the plan, as presented, would leave the school with a projected net income of about $18,000 for fiscal 2027. "We're looking at our days cash on hand. It's showing us a 400 409 actual. 340 is our average for the last 12 months," Sloan said, and added the school has roughly $242,000 in operating cash and designated reserves near $1.7 million.
Sloan and school leadership flagged a recent legislative change that reduced the weighting for vocational-coded students from 1.2 to 1.0, which…
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