The School Board met on April 14th for a regular meeting. The agenda, as a PDF (with hyperlinks to relevant documents) is available for review HERE.

Dr. Leslie, Acting Superintendent, presented another proposed 2025-26 budget which totaled $22,416,875, a decrease of over $530,000 from the budget proposed in December and January by Superintendent Wargo. The proposed budget still includes an increase over last year and requests more out of County taxpayers, even while admitting that prior budgets included “overestimations”.

MANY thanks to Dr. Leslie for reducing the budget from December totals (while still providing for employee raises and benefits), for providing a level of detail and transparency to the public not seen in the past and for setting a precedence for future budget submissions.

In addition to the actual budget increase, the County will be required to reimburse funds due to missing deadlines for Special Education reporting. The total additional county funding requirement (budget plus reimbursement) is approximately $2,000,000. As noted by Dr. Dave Curran during board member comments, this is not an insignificant sum in a county as small as ours.

The recording is available at https://rumble.com/v6s3x7x-april-14-2025-regular-school-board-meeting.html