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District warns of budget gap from enrollment drop; food service outsourcing considered
Summary
Superintendent Mr. Jones told the board the district lost about 51 students and faces reduced state funding under Senate Bill 1, forcing projected operations cuts; board members discussed outsourcing food service as a potential cost‑saving measure that could improve offerings and reduce a roughly $80,000 shortfall in the food-service line.
Superintendent Mr. Jones told the board the district is facing “a grim picture” after losing roughly 51 students, a drop he said translates into several hundred thousand dollars of lost state revenue under Senate Bill 1. He said the district must reduce its operations budget and is looking across transportation, food service and facility costs for savings.
"When you look at this past year, we lost somewhere around about 51 kids," Mr. Jones said, and later framed the projected near‑term operations gap: "out of our operations budget, we got to cut…
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