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Skokie SD 68 board moves to adopt $36.9 million 2025–26 budget; resolution read aloud
Summary
Board members heard a detailed presentation of the proposed 2025–26 budget and legal resolution; the board moved to adopt the budget and the treasurerread appropriation totals for multiple funds. The transcript does not capture a final roll-call vote on adoption.
The Skokie School District 68 Board of Education considered and moved to adopt the districtproposed fiscal 2025–26 budget after a public hearing and staff presentation.
During the hearing Ms. Austin presented an overview of projected revenues and expenditures and described several interfund transfers to support capital work. "So those numbers may change once the audit is final and he's here this week," Ms. Austin cautioned during the presentation. The board member who moved the approval read a formal resolution that fixes the fiscal year as July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 and appropriates funds across multiple accounts.
The resolution, read into the record by the mover, lists appropriation totals that include $36,894,658 from the educational fund, $24,460,000 from the capital projects fund, $2,942,825 from the operations and maintenance fund, $2,250,000 from the debt service fund, $1,774,825 from the transportation fund, and $408,000 from the tort fund; the resolution text also references $671,500 for Social Security/Medicare within the municipal retirement fund. The transcript contains the motion and the resolution reading; a roll-call vote that finalizes adoption is not captured in the provided excerpt and therefore is "not specified" in this report.
The budget presentation emphasized that the districtexpects to spend down certain fund balances to support capital projects (including a new building) and that local property taxes remain the district's largest revenue source. Next procedural steps identified in the meeting were the formal motion and resolution reading; the record provided does not include a recorded outcome vote within the excerpt.
