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Fairfield County School District adopts FY2024–25 budget, approves personnel actions
Summary
On June 4 the Fairfield County School District Board of Trustees approved the third and final reading of the FY2024–25 budget and accepted personnel recommendations, including certified resignations and appointments; the budget holds millage steady and uses fund balance for one-time needs.
The Fairfield County School District Board of Trustees on June 4 approved the third and final reading of the district’s FY2024–25 budget and accepted several personnel recommendations, the board said during its regular meeting.
The board voted to adopt a budget the district presented as approximately $46.947 million for 2024–25, with a millage rate of 23.1 and no proposed increase in property tax millage. District staff said the proposed budget is roughly $1.2 million higher than the previous year and that the administration plans to use about $1 million from the fund balance to balance the plan. Teachers are scheduled to receive salary increases in accordance with state guidelines; classified and administrative employees were described as receiving step increases and percentage adjustments to the pay scale.
Board members asked whether remaining funds would support summer programming; district staff confirmed some of the fund balance will be used to expand summer programs and that summer offerings will include breakfast and lunch for participating children.
The board also accepted the superintendent’s recommendations for certified educator resignations and terminations to be effective at the close of the 2023–24 academic year and later approved recommended certified professional administrators and educators for 2024–25.
The budget passed on a motion to accept the superintendent’s recommendation for the third and final reading; the motion was seconded and approved by raised hands. The meeting record in the transcript does not contain a clear, fully transcribed roll-call tally for the budget vote.
What happens next: the district staff will implement budgeted summer programs and finalize personnel paperwork for the certified appointments. Any administrative implementation steps required by state reporting will be handled by the superintendent’s office and the finance department.
Clarifying note: the audio transcript contains fragmented numeric sequences for the total budget; district staff provided the approximate total during the meeting that is reported above. The exact numeric transcription in the record was unclear and has been summarized as “approximately $46.947 million.”
