Next year’s Bryan school district budget could have a revenue decrease of between $1 and more than $4 million dollars.
Assistant superintendent Amy Drozd told the school board at their last meeting that’s in part to getting less state money because the district won’t match the 12 percent increase in property values that happened in this year’s budget.
Drozd says the best case scenario for next year’s budget is that it will be based on up to three hundred fewer students, a slowing in the growth of the property tax base, and covering at least one unfunded state mandate. She says the state is mandating pre-kindergarten without providing additional money, and the state is not renewing a pre-K grant the district has used in prior years.
Drozd also reported the district’s demographer is expecting larger kindergarten classes next fall.
Another issue, is finding additional money for pay increases.
Background information given to the board shows a cost of a one percent pay raise is nearly $1 million dollars.
The Bryan school board will receive another budget update in April.