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Trustees press attendance gains as district faces rising recapture payments
Summary
Trustees highlighted attendance improvements and challenged the district to push attendance higher, while finance staff warned that property-value growth has increased recapture obligations — estimated $965,917 last year and roughly $1.3 million projected next year.
Trustee Hargrove praised the administration and attendance specialists for raising average daily attendance about 1.5 percentage points and urged families to keep students in class. "If your kids are in school, they're learning and they're growing," she said, and she acknowledged dropout specialist Sandy Scott's role in the improvements.
Miss Stone and trustees discussed recapture — the state mechanism that shifts some local tax revenue away from the district when values outpace student-weighted funding. Miss Stone said recapture for 2025–26 came in near $965,917 and that the district projects roughly $1.3 million in recapture next year based on WADA projections, making attendance and WADA-sensitive programs an important funding lever.
