The Hampton-Dumont School Board this week approved a quote from Team Concrete in the amount of $79,100 to update the softball field dugouts and crows nest.
The board held their organizational meeting and elected Erran Miller as board president and elected Stephanie Powers as board vice president for the next year.
The Hampton-Dumont School Board also discussed certified enrollment for 2025-26. Hampton-Dumont Superintendent Tim Felderman tells RadioOnTheGo News the district is down over 40 students from the previous school year.
“That does impact us in our general fund, which is where the salaries, our operating expenses are paid out of. And I say to the tune of negative $332,000 approximately, that we have less state funding coming to us as a result of having those 43 fewer students. Now, we’ve also done some projections as well. I think that helps us with our planning process that we look at, whether that’s for staffing needs, looking at our operating expenses. And unfortunately, over the course of the next few years, when you factor in the whole grade sharing opportunities with CAL, as well as open enrollment. And we’ve got some plans to stymie, hopefully, but there are some more significant decreasing of enrollment there.”
Felderman says the biggest decrease in enrollment will be seen at the high school level over the next four years.
“As you have fewer kids that are in the system at the kindergarten level and the high graduating classes out and as they graduate, that’s going to hit your high school at a little bit of a higher clip than the lower grades. But we’re doing a lot of things as we looked at staffing needs, again, recurring expenses that will be ahead of this. So we have a very healthy prudent financial planning for our school board that will be able to weather the storm. But we always have to be deliberate in our thought process to make sure that it’s not that something (like other) school districts have to go through.”
During the meeting, the H-D School Board also authorized the district’s administration to submit two requests to the School Budget Review Committee, one for a modified supplemental amount of $221,916 for open enrolled out students who were not included in the districts’ previous year certified enrollment count and another for an amount of $91,782 related to the English language learning program for students who have exceeded five years of weighting that are included on the fall 2022 certified enrollment headcount.
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