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Mancos Re-6 board approves preliminary budget after state funding roller-coaster
Summary
The Mancos School District Re-6 board unanimously approved a preliminary budget as part of the consent agenda on May 18, 2026, after hearing revised state funding projections, a regional services (BOCES) budget briefing and discussion of pending grants that could affect final scenarios.
The Mancos School District Re-6 board voted unanimously on May 18 to approve its consent agenda, which included the district’s preliminary budget for the coming year.
Board members approved the preliminary budget after hearing updated state projections and a detailed review of regional services and grant outcomes that could materially change the district’s outlook. Presenters said revised state numbers released in May show a pupil funding projection of about 14,521 and an estimated local enrollment figure around 455 students, figures board staff used to model two budget scenarios.
The board’s finance discussion included a BOCES (regional services, recorded in the packet as “Boseies”) briefing explaining that the local special education contribution—cited in the presentation as roughly $1.3 million across the member districts—helps cover expenses not funded through state special-education aid. The presenter noted the BOCES fund balance is maintained to cover two to three months of payroll if state payments are delayed; in the presentation that balance equated to roughly 2.8 months of typical bills.
Board staff described a short-term “roller coaster” in the state calculations after a newly-applied cost-of-living factor briefly reduced district projections by about $25,000 before the state paused implementation to review timing and calculations. One outstanding grant application of about $165,000 remains pending; staff said receipt of that grant would move the district’s more favorable budget scenario into surplus, while failure to win it would require further internal adjustments.
Despite the uncertainty, the board placed the preliminary budget on the consent agenda and approved it with a unanimous vote of attending members. The consent vote followed a motion to add the budget approval to the agenda earlier in the meeting; that amendment also passed unanimously.
What’s next: staff told the board they will return to work-session discussions in June with updated carryover figures and final grant determinations to reconcile the preliminary scenarios into a balanced final budget for later Board action. The board emphasized it would wait for the remaining grant and state reconciliation numbers before making trimming decisions.
