Hackberry board revises FY26 budget to reflect post-legislative allocations and align contracts

The Hackberry Elementary School District #3 Governing Board on Sept. 9 approved revisions to the FY26 expenditure budget to reflect changes enacted since the adopted budget and to align budget lines with final allocations and contracts.

Administration presented a change log explaining that revisions were required because the adopted budget had been prepared under assumptions in place before the end of the Arizona legislative session. Changes included an increase in overall budget capacity, an updated tax rate, alignment of the auditing-services budget with the board-approved contract, adjustments to federal grant budgets to match final allocations, and allocation of additional capacity to the capital budget.

Valerie Grimes moved to revise the FY26 budget; Pam Adams seconded the motion and it passed 3-0. The minutes record that, earlier in the business manager's report, the district reported cash-on-hand growth of 2% year-over-year and that 31% of the budget remained unencumbered as of July. The minutes also state a "current budget capacity" of $245,000 and note an identified need for $100,000 for classified staff wages; the minutes do not reconcile the later line that reports available funds as "- $145,000." The board did not provide further numerical reconciliation in the minutes.

The minutes do not record specific dollar changes to each line item in the public record; administration indicated the revised budget was presented as accurate and timely and a motion to adopt the revision passed 3-0.