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Marquette Area Public Schools board adopts $49.9M 2025–26 budget
Summary
The Marquette Area Public Schools Board on June 23 adopted a $49,921,464 general-fund budget for 2025–26, approving a plan that assumes continuation of Michigan's universal free meals program and includes three new buses and sinking-fund replenishment.
The Marquette Area Public Schools Board of Education adopted the district's 2025–26 general fund budget on June 23, approving $49,921,464 in expenditures and a projected $49,512,832 in revenues. Assistant Superintendent James Lampman presented the budget, which assumes a $9,808 per-pupil foundation allowance estimate and uses May 2025 property values for tax revenue estimates.
The budget includes a net planned drawdown (a projected $408,632 decrease in net income), continued investment in transportation with the purchase of three buses (estimated fleet investment continuing a two-bus-per-year replacement plan), and a transfer of $150,000 to the Capital Projects Fund to sustain the district's one-to-one Chromebook initiative. Lampman told the board the largest district expense remains salaries and benefits, which comprise roughly 84% of the spending plan. The board voted 6–0 to adopt the budget resolution as presented.
Why it matters: the adopted plan funds near-term operations while preserving contingency and sinking-fund planning for facility work identified in the district's facilities study. The board set the next step for the facilities process by approving interviews for construction managers and maintaining sinking-fund strategies to address prioritized projects.
What’s next: the board directed staff to proceed with planned procurements and the interview schedule for construction managers, and to bring recommended project priorities to future meetings. Formal adoption of the budget takes effect July 1, 2025.
