Moraga School District

BUDGET ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING

01.08.26

Meeting #4

Inclusive Opening

Budget Advisory Committee

Purpose

Purpose:�To provide input and recommendations to the Superintendent on budgetary priorities and strategies for the Moraga School District.

Goals:

• Promote fiscal responsibility.
• Increase transparency in budget decisions.
• Align budget priorities with the district's educational goals.
• Engage the community in the decision-making process.
• Make recommendations for budget cuts to close the structural deficit.

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Budget Advisory Committee

Norms

• Maintain Focus on Student Learning and Belonging
• Assume Positive Intentions
• Get Curious, Not Furious
• Listen with the Intent to Understand
• Talk about services and positions, not people
• Communicating committee work
• Don’t hold back a question

• Review cost-outs for suggested cuts�
• Suggest cuts for 2026-27 and 2027-28

Outcome for Today:

Questions from 10.15.2025

- Special education budget detail - ✔

- Break down of proposed cuts for 2026-2027 with $ amounts - ✔

- Intentions of the parcel tax – Team CivX - ✔

- Recruit more teachers and classified staff - ✔

- More information about literacy tutors

- Future needs (math intervention, math adoption) ✔

- Textbook costs, consumables - alternate revenue streams? ✔

- Chromebooks - BYOD? ✔

- Comparisons with other districts - total compensation

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Questions from 11.06.2025

• First Interim information - ✔
• High level budget numbers ✔
• Special education comparisons - inflationary information
• MEF information
• Parcel tax comparisons
• Budget cut idea generation - Desire to focus on this. ✔
• Governing Board February Presentation
• Prop 98
• TA breakout ✔

Fund 12 Childcare

Fund 13 Cafeteria

Fund

Fund 17 Special Reserve

Fund 21 Building

Fund – Measure V

Fund 25 Capital Facilities - Developer Fees

Fund 40 Capital Projects Reserve

All Funds

Fund 01 General

Fund 35 School Facilities

Fund

Fund 08 Student Body

Fund

Fund 01 or the General Fund is the main fund for District business and is facing a deficit:

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Revenues < Expenses

Budget Cuts Ideas�

District and Committee

Needs to be maintained

• Day and night custodians
• Maintenance (required 3% of expenditures)
• Food Service (Fund 13)
• Childcare and Childcare Accountant (Fund 12)
• TK IAs – required to maintain 1:10 ratio
• Music and Art (Prop 28 money)

Needs to be maintained

• Art and Music (Prep time)
• Teachers in classrooms (class size caps in contract)
• Principals for each site
• Administrative Asst. for each site (1 FTE elementary, 2 FTE JM)
• Special education staff
• English Language Development (ELD)
• Yard Duty (safety)

CUTS needed in $s

2027-28 needed budget cuts as of First Interim - $500k

2026-27 needed budget cuts as of First Interim - $556k – included in MYP

Results from last meeting

Programmatically important but do not need to be maintained

• Counselor, additional 1 FTE - $160,090, in MYP 2.0 FTE $235,955
• Part-time Administrative Assistants - $99,779
• Intake Specialist - $43,155
• Science TOSAs 2.0 FTE - $330,586
• Elementary PE - $154,470
• Library Media Specialists (0.8 FTE to 0.5 FTE elementary) – $76,831
• Options for TAs: eliminate grades 1-5 - $209,770, or grades 3-5 - $124,580
• Summer planning hours (moving classrooms) - $16,000
• Co-Teaching stipend - $94,400

Programmatically important but do not need to be maintained

• Student chromebooks –
• 2023 - $120,155
• 2024 - $54,103
• 2025 - $54,103
• 2026 - $90,000 budgeted, $29,438 spent

Assuming a $30k in savings – new costs expected with personal laptops

• New curriculum adoptions – Assigned money

MSD Budget Advisory 12.11.25

Assigned for Curriculum adoptions – one time

Proposed Cuts Based on Feedback

2026 - 2027:

• Summer Planning
• Technology (Chromebooks)
• Library Media Specialist Reduction
• Intake Specialist
• Elementary PE
• Curriculum and Instruction Cuts (approximately $10,000)

=$330,456 In recommended cuts

Additional recommendation:

• 3-5th Grade Instructional Assistants
• Co-teaching Stipends

=$550,000 for 2026-2027

Proposed Cuts Based on Feedback

2027 - 2028:

• Part Time Administrative Assistants*
• K-2nd Grade Instructional Assistants
• Science TOSAs

=$515,555 In recommended cuts for 2027-2028

*This would be a very challenging operational cut and will have to be considered in context next year.

We have a revenue issue.

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The only long term solution is additional revenue.

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For the next meeting:

Parcel Tax exploration status.

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Governor’s Budget Proposal

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Final recommendation to the Governing Board for February.

Next Steps

02/05/2026 Final Committee meeting

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