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Newaygo board approves 2025–26 budgets, levy resolution and budget amendments
Summary
The Newaygo Public Schools Board approved 2024–25 budget amendments and adopted the 2025–26 budget resolutions and tax levy after a budget hearing; administrator wages were also approved. All motions passed unanimously where recorded.
On June 16, 2025, the Newaygo Public Schools Board of Education approved amendments to the 2024–25 budgets and adopted the 2025–26 budget resolutions, including the levy for 2025, during a regular meeting at Newaygo High School Library.
Business Manager Kim Bidwell presented a budget update during the budget hearing. Following that presentation, the board voted to approve 2024–25 budget amendments for the Food Service Fund, General Fund and Student Activities Fund as presented by administration. The motion, made by Trustee Thomas Frisbie and seconded by Trustee Mary Spicer, passed 7–0.
The board then considered the 2025–26 budgets and the resolution to levy 2025 taxes for the General Fund Operating, Food Service Fund and Student Activities Fund. Trustee Reid Sherwood moved and Trustee Mary Spicer seconded the resolution; a roll call vote recorded all seven trustees voting aye and the motion carried.
The board also approved the proposed 2025–26 administrator wages. Trustee Sara Smith moved to approve the administrator wages, seconded by Trustee Thomas Frisbie; the motion passed 7–0.
Why it matters: Adoption of the resolutions and the levy sets the district’s official budgets and tax levy for the upcoming school year and authorizes administration to implement the spending plans approved by the board. The transcript records the board’s unanimous approval where indicated but does not provide the detailed budget figures in the public minutes.
What comes next: The budgets and levy take effect for the 2025–26 fiscal year and will be reflected in district financial operations and reporting; the district indicated the student handbooks and NEOLA policy updates will return for formal approval at the July meeting.
