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Board reviews FY26 budget adjustment proposals including staffing changes and offsets
Summary
District staff presented line-by-line FY26 budget adjustment proposals: a $350,000 community engagement repurpose, additions and reductions of FTEs across special education and support roles, and use of grant funding to cover some positions.
John Morstad summarized the FY26 budget-adjustment proposals the district intends to bring forward for board approval.
Among the highlights, Morstad described a community engagement request for $350,000 that would be offset by a corresponding reduction in the Division of Teaching and Learning, producing a net-zero impact. He said additional staffing requests include 2.0 FTE special education teachers and 2.0 FTE education support specialists for voluntary pre-K, funded through federal special education grants, and the addition of 7.21 FTE social workers to continue positions that were previously year-limited strategic investments.
In the instructional and information technology division the plan proposes adding a 1.0 FTE cybersecurity analyst and reducing 1.0 FTE application analyst (net 0.0), intended to strengthen cybersecurity support. Morstad emphasized the PAIR evaluation process used to vet each request and noted that many proposals were revised after feedback from the LRFP advisory team before being graded green or yellow.
Board members asked about offsets, program impacts and whether the proposals preserve instructional priorities; staff said they will provide line-item detail for the Feb. 25 business meeting.
