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Fairview Area School District adopts 2025–26 budget, approves superintendent contract 4–2
Summary
The Fairview Area School District board adopted the 2025–2026 General Fund and School Services budgets, approved an 18-mill levy on non-homestead property, and approved the superintendent's 2025–2027 contract in a 4–2 vote. The meeting also ratified a support staff contract and approved personnel postings and a short-term finance consultant contract.
The Fairview Area School District Board of Education on June 26 adopted the district's fiscal year 2025–2026 budgets, approved a tax levy of 18 mills on non-homestead property and approved the superintendent's 2025–2027 contract by a 4–2 vote.
President Anne Tompkins called the special meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. in the high school media center. After a budget hearing and a closed-session superintendent evaluation, the board recorded a 2024–2025 summative evaluation score for the superintendent of 80% (rated "Developing"). Following the evaluation, the negotiations committee recommended approval of a two-year contract for Troy Ross as superintendent; the motion (moved by Mike Alchin, seconded by Janice Handrich) carried 4–2, with Ryan King and Gary Wnuk recorded as the nay votes.
The board approved amendments to the 2024–2025 general fund revenue and expenditure budgets, moving General Fund revenue from $4,289,749 to $4,361,612 and General Fund expenditures from $4,591,553 to $4,835,183. Those amendments, and related School Services budget amendments, were adopted on motions by Mike Alchin and Janice Handrich and each passed 5–1, with Gary Wnuk the lone dissenting vote.
For FY 2025–2026 the board adopted the General Fund Budget Resolution and the School Services Budget Resolution. The board also voted to levy 18 mills on non-homestead property for 2025 operating purposes (motion by Janice Handrich, seconded by Mike Alchin), a motion that passed 5–1 (Wnuk dissenting).
On labor and personnel matters, the board unanimously approved the Fairview Federation of School-Related Personnel support staff contract for 2025–2028 (moved by Janice Handrich, seconded by Ryan King). The board also approved raising the general fund credit card limit from $8,000 to $12,000 to accommodate monthly spending (Alchin/Wnuk), approved creating and posting a Behavior Interventionist position funded with At-Risk funds for the 2025–2026 school year (King/Alchin), and approved posting a new Business Manager position (Wnuk/King). All of those motions carried unanimously 6–0.
The board approved an independent contract for Mary Jo Green to serve as a finance consultant from July 7 to August 19, 2025, to complete fiscal year close-out work and the audit. Mary Jo Green, who had served as the district's Director of Finance and administrative assistant to the superintendent for sixteen years, thanked the board; the board thanked her for her service.
The meeting recessed into a closed session to complete the superintendent evaluation at 6:45 p.m. and later to discuss contract negotiations at 7:30 p.m.; the board returned to open session at 9:05 p.m. President Tompkins adjourned the meeting at 9:25 p.m.
Actions recorded at the meeting included formal votes on the superintendent contract (approved 4–2), support staff contract ratification (approved 6–0), multiple budget amendments and resolutions (variously approved 5–1 or 6–0), an 18-mill levy on non-homestead property (approved 5–1), a temporary finance consulting contract, and personnel position postings. The minutes show vote tallies for each motion as noted above.
