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Sunnyside board approves 2025–26 budget revision after public hearing; auditors flagged noncompliance
Summary
The Sunnyside Unified School District governing board approved its fiscal year 2025–26 annual expenditure budget revision No. 2 after a public hearing. District staff cited a 4% decline in average daily membership and identified specific fund increases and a pending corrective plan for audit findings.
The Sunnyside Unified School District governing board voted to approve the 2025–26 annual expenditure budget revision No. 2 after a public hearing and staff presentation.
District staff reported an actual average daily membership of 12,707, a decline of 538 students (about 4 percent) from the previous count. The presenter said the maintenance and operation fund shows a net increase of $288,731 from the last revision despite an ADM-related reduction of about $183,000; that shortfall was offset in part by restored free‑and‑reduced population allocations totaling $489,896. Staff also reported a net increase in the district’s federal and state grant funds (noted in the presentation as roughly $1.2 million in adjustments) and an increase in district additional assistance of about $101,014. The presenter said the district will finalize year‑end figures after the incumbrance period closes and incorporate all expenditures and revenues in the annual financial report.
“Once we end our incumbrance period we report all the expenditures and revenues received for the fiscal year,” the presenter told the board, offering to supply a grade‑level breakdown of enrollment data in the Friday report.
Board members pressed staff about a recent letter of noncompliance from the state auditor general’s office dating back to June 2025. The presenter said corrective actions are under way and that the district has a meeting scheduled with auditors to submit a formal corrective action plan.
Board approval followed a motion to adopt the budget revision; a roll‑call vote recorded affirmative votes from the board. The voter roll call recorded each member as voting “yes.”
The board’s action completes the step required by statute after the public hearing; administration said it will return with any required updates after closing the fiscal year and meeting with the auditor general’s office.
What happens next: staff will close the fiscal year, file the annual financial report and present a corrective‑action update to the board following the district’s meeting with the auditor general.
