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Merced City School Board approves 2025–26 budget, multiple after-school contracts and superintendent extension
Summary
At its June 24 meeting the Merced City School District board adopted the 2025–26 budget, approved vendor agreements for expanded-learning services (including Bali Learning and Boys & Girls Club), renewed safety and instructional platforms, and extended the superintendent's contract through 2028.
The Merced City School District Board of Trustees on June 24 adopted the district's 2025–26 budget and approved a slate of vendor contracts intended to expand after-school and intersession programming.
During an evening session that ran past 11 p.m., trustees approved agreements including the Bali Learning Center renewal, Boys & Girls Club intersession programming, the EXL adaptive learning platform, legal services renewals and the GoGuardian Beacon safety monitoring renewal. Board members also received presentations from vendors and asked for additional cost breakdowns for several large items.
Superintendent Stocking's employment agreement was extended one year to June 30, 2028, with a 2.3% base salary increase effective July 1, 2025. Trustees voted to adopt the district budget and a resolution designating certain general funds as committed balances.
Closed-session action reported at the meeting included votes to accept administrative findings in two student expulsion cases. Trustees present recorded roll-call votes accepting the administrative panel's recommendations to expel student case #720425 and student case #8 202425 pursuant to rehabilitation plan conditions; two trustees were absent.
Board members said they want more detailed financial line-items in the packet for many renewals. On multiple contracts trustees asked for granular cost breakdowns, staffing plans and evidence of program effectiveness. Several large or complex items were tabled for a future meeting so the full board could review additional documentation and speak with vendor representatives.
What comes next: trustees asked district staff to return with supplemental budgets, program metrics and vendor cost breakdowns at upcoming meetings. The board also scheduled a follow-up on several pulled consent items when a full complement of trustees is present.
