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Enrollment declines and governor's raises squeeze next school budget; superintendent seeks aides and one assistant
Summary
Superintendent Stanley warned a combination of ADM losses, a local ability-to-pay adjustment and proposed state raises could produce a roughly $1.6 million local cost and a multi-million-dollar budget gap; he requested four special-education aides, one adaptive classroom and an administrative assistant at Tomahawk.
Stanley said the re-benchmarking process raised Campbell County's local ability-to-pay index by 7.5%, creating a roughly $4,000,000 shift that the division must offset. He also reported expected ADM reductions — the governor's estimate showed a 175-student adjustment plus an additional projected 60-student loss next year — and said "that’s basically a $2,000,000 loss in revenue," and added that a 2% raise "costs the county essentially $1,600,000."
Facing that gap, Stanley listed near-term staffing requests for the budget: four additional special-education aides, one adaptive special-education classroom at Concord Elementary and one administrative assistant at Tomahawk to handle expanding at-risk caseloads. He said federal funding may cover portions of special-education staffing but flagged insurance and utility-price risk as additional budget pressures if costs rise.
