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SCOE budget briefing: staff outline assumptions, May Revise timing and local grant risks
Summary
Deputy Superintendent Michelle Henson walked trustees through budget assumptions informed by the governor's proposed 2025–26 budget, noting a 2.43% COLA assumption, a 9.7% indirect cost rate for SCOE, and a significant share of revenues from local grants; staff flagged clusters of grants ending June 30 that create planning risk for the FY26 proposed budget.
Deputy Superintendent Michelle Henson gave an extended budget presentation that described the DART board model, local planning assumptions and the SACS account structure used to prepare SCOE’s proposed budget. Henson said staff used the governor’s 2025–26 proposal for revenue estimates and included a 2.43% cost‑of‑living adjustment in the planning assumptions.
"It includes a COLA of 2.43%," Henson said while outlining the revenue assumptions. She described SCOE’s indirect cost rate approved by CDE as 9.7% (with special education, transportation and SELPA capped at 5%) and explained that SCOE’s revenue mix is more heavily weighted toward local grants than many LEAs: staff cited local revenue listed at approximately $29,000,000 in the second interim summary.
Trustees and staff discussed a cluster of roughly two dozen grants that end June 30, including private foundation and county contracts and ARPA‑funded projects. Staff explained many of those are one‑time project grants and that the budget team is modeling scenarios to address the loss of one‑time funds, preserve core services and plan multi‑year projections (form NYP) for public hearing and adoption in June.
Henson said staff will bring a proposed budget and multiyear projections to trustees for public hearing in mid‑June and adoption later in the month; trustees asked for printed budget packets and additional detail on object codes and assumptions so members can review the proposed book before final action.
