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Fairfield‑Suisun reviews updated LCAP and conservative 2026–27 draft budget
Summary
District staff presented an updated 2024–27 Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) with multiple goal budgets — including about $60 million for academic supports and $42.66 million targeted to unduplicated students — and a draft 2026–27 budget built on conservative state assumptions; LCAP returns for board approval in two weeks.
At the June 11 meeting of the Fairfield‑Suisun Unified School District governing board, Dr. Sheila McCabe and colleagues reviewed the district's updated Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) for 2024–27 and Amanda Deish presented the draft 2026–27 annual budget.
Dr. McCabe described the LCAP as "a document that describes our goals, actions, services, and expenditures," and said the committee recommends keeping the district's six existing goals and adding a required equity multiplier goal for high‑mobility schools. She described Goal 1 (academic supports) as containing about 20 actions with roughly $60 million budgeted and said approximately $42.66 million of that is directed toward English learners, foster youth and low‑income students.
Other goal highlights presented to the board included social‑emotional learning (about $3.4 million budgeted for related actions) and climate and culture investments (about $47.8 million budgeted, with approximately $26.88 million directed to high‑need students). Dr. McCabe also described equity multiplier allocations for specific sites, citing roughly $717,000 for Samto (a continuation site) and approximately $51,000 for Hllen Richardson to support sensory rooms and other interventions.
Budget director Amanda Deish presented a draft 2026–27 budget built on the governor's May revision and conservative assumptions pending final state action. Deish said the district assumed a statutory cost‑of‑living adjustment of 2.87% plus an additional 1.44% LCFF investment, projected declining enrollment over the next six years, and budgeted step and column increases plus recent compensation changes. She said 82% of the general fund is budgeted for salaries and benefits, the district holds approximately a 5% general fund reserve (about $19 million), and the multi‑fund ending position is currently positive for 2026–27.
Deish said the district will bring a 45‑day revision in mid‑August once the state budget is finalized and that the draft budget will be returned for formal adoption at the next regularly scheduled June meeting.
What's next: the LCAP will return to the governing board in two weeks for approval and be submitted to the county on June 26; the district will refine the budget at the 45‑day revision after the state adopts its budget. The board offered no substantive amendments to the LCAP or the draft budget at the meeting.
