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North Miami board adopts 2026 budget, capital and bus-replacement plans and related resolutions
Summary
On Oct. 14 the North Miami Community Schools Board of Trustees adopted the 2026 budget, approved capital and bus replacement plans, and passed a series of budget resolutions and a tax-anticipation-warrant authorization by unanimous votes (5-0).
The North Miami Community Schools Board of Trustees on Oct. 14 adopted the district's 2026 budget and approved several accompanying financial resolutions, including a capital plan, a bus-replacement plan and authorization of tax anticipation warrants.
Board members voted unanimously (motion carried 5-0 on each item) to adopt the 2026 budget and the 2026 capital plans and bus replacement plan. The board also approved a resolution permitting budget order changes, a separate budget-adjustment resolution to allow modifications to the 2025 or 2026 budgets if needed, a resolution to transfer funds from the Education Fund to the Operations Fund for calendar year 2026, and a resolution allowing appropriation transfers within fund lines for approved expenditures. The board approved a resolution authorizing tax anticipation warrants for 2026. Motions and seconders were recorded in the minutes for each item.
Superintendent-level reports earlier in the meeting noted an ongoing focus on fiscal housekeeping: Kenneth Hanson told the board the district's Fall ADM (average daily membership) was certified at 756 and that the district sold its 2025 bond to First Farmers Bank & Trust at an interest rate of 3.55%, providing context to the board's fiscal actions.
Votes at a glance: - 2026 Budget: Adopted. Motion: "Recommend to adopt the 2026 Budget." Mover: Jeff Working; Second: Amy Eckrote. Outcome: approved 5-0. - 2026 Capital Plans: Adopted. Mover: Stan Hudson; Second: Sam Finnegan. Outcome: approved 5-0. - 2026 Bus Replacement Plan: Adopted. Mover: Jeff Working; Second: Amy Eckrote. Outcome: approved 5-0. - Budget order changes resolution: Adopted. Outcome: approved 5-0. - Budget adjustment resolution (2025/2026): Adopted. Outcome: approved 5-0. - Transfer from Education Fund to Operations Fund (2026): Adopted. Outcome: approved 5-0. - Appropriation-transfer resolution (intra-fund transfers): Adopted. Outcome: approved 5-0. - Resolution authorizing tax anticipation warrants (2026): Adopted. Mover: Amy Eckrote; Second: Sam Finnegan. Outcome: approved 5-0.
Why it matters: The decisions set the district's spending priorities and cash-flow authorities for 2026, including capital spending and replacement of school buses, and put in governance mechanisms for intra-budget adjustments. The board recorded unanimous support for each measure.
The board's next regular meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025.
