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Liberty Local forecasts no shortfall through FY2029
Liberty Local – 050195 (Trumbull) · Fiscal Year 2026 Required Update to Forecast
Submission date: 02/26/2026
Liberty Local’s own notes and assumptions for this forecast (PDF) →
Every Ohio school district files a budget forecast with the state: three years of actual figures, this year’s budget and the years ahead. On its own forecast, Liberty Local stays above zero through FY2029 if its current levies are renewed and no new one passes.
- Cash, June 30, 2025
- $5.7M
- Runs short
- Not by FY2029
- New levy in the forecast
- None
4.3 months of that year’s spending
on its own forecast, if its levies are renewed and no new one passes
it counts no levy voters have not approved
Liberty Local Schools on the November 3, 2026 ballot
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Property tax, 2.3 mills
Renewal SchoolsCurrent operating expenses · 5 years · from 2026
Continues a levy already on the bill. If it passes, the levy keeps going as it is today; if it fails, it ends when its current term runs out. Liberty Local sits at Ohio’s 20-mill floor on the state’s 2025 rates, so its operating levies, this one among them, are no longer cut when homes are revalued: what they collect rises with values, which a 2025 law holds to inflation.
Liberty Township has 3 tax issues of its own on this ballot: see them on Trumbull County’s ballot.
How its earlier votes went: since March 17, 2020, voters have decided 7 Liberty Local Schools tax issues — 4 passed and 3 failed. Renewals passed 4 of 4; of the issues asking for new money, 0 of 3 passed.
Liberty Local: cash, unencumbered, unreserved — four different balances
The forecast has four balance lines, and each is the one before it with something taken away or added. They are easy to mix up, and they are not the same number.
| Line | ActualFY2025 | BudgetFY2026 | ForecastFY2029 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07.020 Cash balance at June 30Everything in the general fund's account at the end of the year. | 5,739,970 | 4,621,421 | (5,962,339) |
| 10.010 Unencumbered balanceWhat is free to spend. The state calls it the fund balance for certification of appropriations. | 5,739,970 | 4,621,421 | (5,962,339) |
| 11.300 Renewal leviesExisting levies the district expects voters to renew, added year by year. | + 0 | + 862,125 | + 7,861,231 |
| 12.010 With renewalsThe balance if every renewal passes and nothing new does. | 5,739,970 | 5,483,546 | 1,898,892 |
| 15.010 Unreserved fund balanceThe state's bottom line. In a forecast year it counts any new levy above as if it had passed. | 5,739,970 | 5,483,546 | 1,898,892 |
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For past years the state asks for no renewal or new-levy money, so the unencumbered and unreserved balances are the same; cash is larger by what is already committed and set aside. In a forecast year the unreserved balance counts any new levy as if it had passed.
Liberty Local’s forecast, line by line
Each line as Liberty Local filed it with the state, in the state’s own format. Tap or hover over a line to see what it means.
| Forecast line and description | ActualFY2023 | ActualFY2024 | ActualFY2025 | Current year budgetFY2026 | Forecast year 1FY2027 | Forecast year 2FY2028 | Forecast year 3FY2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
01.010 General Property Tax (Real Estate)Property tax on land and buildings — homes, farms and businesses — from levies voters have already approved. |
7,772,704 | 7,899,204 | 9,431,190 | 8,010,927 | 7,159,239 | 6,930,683 | 6,942,773 |
01.020 Tangible Personal Property TaxProperty tax on the equipment of utilities, such as power lines, pipelines and power plants. |
483,898 | 741,267 | 0 | 521,617 | 488,346 | 480,976 | 485,247 |
01.035 Unrestricted Grants-in-AidState aid the district may spend on anything — mostly Ohio's school funding formula. |
4,248,696 | 4,928,367 | 4,674,586 | 4,180,109 | 4,148,836 | 4,125,391 | 4,079,995 |
01.040 Restricted Grants-in-AidState aid that must be spent on set purposes, such as help for pupils from low-income families. |
669,796 | 857,650 | 784,632 | 741,158 | 765,439 | 789,596 | 833,874 |
01.050 State Reimbursement for Property Tax CreditsThe part of homeowners' property tax the state pays for them: the 10% and 2.5% rollbacks and the homestead exemption. |
1,054,483 | 1,090,905 | 567,285 | 1,024,417 | 889,735 | 859,771 | 860,431 |
01.060 All Other Operating RevenueEverything else that comes in: fees, tuition from other districts, interest, rentals and gifts. |
978,321 | 987,625 | 1,137,062 | 1,031,064 | 998,372 | 977,534 | 961,806 |
01.070 Total RevenueAll of the revenue above, added together. |
15,207,898 | 16,505,019 | 16,594,755 | 15,509,292 | 14,449,967 | 14,163,951 | 14,164,126 |
02.040 Operating Transfers-InMoney moved into the general fund from the district's other funds. |
165,000 | 165,000 | 224,759 | 165,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
02.050 Advances-InMoney the general fund lent to the district's other funds, coming back. |
113,041 | 162,931 | 289,854 | 636,730 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 |
02.060 All Other Financing SourcesOne-off money, such as refunds of past spending or the sale of property. |
80,458 | 82,603 | 32,757 | 80,000 | 80,000 | 80,000 | 80,000 |
02.070 Total Other Financing SourcesAll of the other money coming in, lines 2.010 to 2.060, added together. |
358,498 | 410,534 | 547,370 | 881,730 | 130,000 | 130,000 | 130,000 |
02.080 Total Revenue and Other Financing SourcesEverything coming in for the year: revenue plus other money coming in. |
15,566,396 | 16,915,553 | 17,142,124 | 16,391,022 | 14,579,967 | 14,293,951 | 14,294,126 |
03.010 Personal Services - Employee Salaries & WagesSalaries and wages for teachers and every other employee. |
7,284,016 | 7,380,010 | 8,103,064 | 8,551,520 | 8,755,931 | 9,010,990 | 9,277,385 |
03.020 Employees' Retirement and Insurance BenefitsThe district's share of staff pensions (STRS and SERS), health insurance, Medicare and workers' compensation. |
2,661,211 | 2,837,536 | 3,225,755 | 3,489,107 | 3,741,410 | 4,011,431 | 4,305,883 |
03.030 Purchased ServicesServices bought from outside: utilities, repairs, contracted services and tuition paid for pupils taught elsewhere. |
3,051,800 | 3,357,746 | 3,473,857 | 3,831,864 | 3,730,068 | 3,803,615 | 3,878,653 |
03.040 Supplies and MaterialsTextbooks, classroom supplies, fuel, food and other things the district buys. |
309,510 | 206,852 | 450,677 | 441,921 | 283,936 | 289,938 | 296,069 |
03.050 Capital OutlayEquipment, buses and building improvements paid for from the general fund. |
242,680 | 38,131 | 173,496 | 175,058 | 39,099 | 39,731 | 40,375 |
04.010 All Principal (Historical)Borrowed money repaid in past years. |
155,157 | 155,157 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
04.050 Principal-HB 264 LoansRepaying loans for energy-saving building work (House Bill 264). |
144,764 | 150,899 | 158,488 | 158,488 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
04.060 Interest and Fiscal ChargesInterest and fees on the district's borrowing. |
201,225 | 195,090 | 187,501 | 129,015 | 169,015 | 169,015 | 169,015 |
04.300 Other ObjectsOther costs, such as the county's fees for collecting its taxes, audits, elections, insurance and memberships. |
359,780 | 292,641 | 358,810 | 372,598 | 376,307 | 380,069 | 383,869 |
04.500 Total ExpendituresEverything the district spends in the year, lines 3.010 to 4.300, added together. |
14,410,142 | 14,614,063 | 16,131,647 | 17,149,570 | 17,095,766 | 17,704,789 | 18,351,249 |
05.010 Operational Transfers-OutMoney moved out of the general fund to the district's other funds, such as food service or athletics. |
412,493 | 312,570 | 310,000 | 310,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 |
05.020 Advances-OutMoney the general fund lends to the district's other funds for a while. |
148,230 | 289,854 | 636,730 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 |
05.040 Total Other Financing UsesAll of the other money going out, lines 5.010 to 5.030, added together. |
560,723 | 602,424 | 946,730 | 360,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 |
05.050 Total Expenditures and Other Financing UsesEverything going out for the year: spending plus other money going out. |
14,970,865 | 15,216,487 | 17,078,377 | 17,509,570 | 17,295,766 | 17,904,789 | 18,551,249 |
06.010 Excess Of Revenues and Other Financing Sources over (under) Expenditures and Other Financing UsesThe year's result: money in minus money out. A number in brackets means the district spent more than it took in. |
595,532 | 1,699,066 | 63,748 | (1,118,549) | (2,715,799) | (3,610,837) | (4,257,123) |
07.010 Beginning Cash Balance July 1 - Excluding Proposed Renewal/Replacement and New LeviesCash in the general fund on July 1, the start of the school year — last year's ending cash. |
3,381,625 | 3,977,156 | 5,676,222 | 5,739,970 | 4,621,421 | 1,905,622 | (1,705,216) |
07.020 Ending Cash Balance June 30 - Excluding Proposed Renewal/Replacement and New LeviesCash on June 30, the end of the year: the starting cash plus the year's result, before any renewal or new levy. |
3,977,156 | 5,676,222 | 5,739,970 | 4,621,421 | 1,905,622 | (1,705,216) | (5,962,339) |
09.045 Fiscal StabilizationMoney set aside to steady the budget over future years. |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
10.010 Fund Balance June 30 For Certification of AppropriationsWhat is free to spend: the ending cash less money already committed and money set aside — often called the unencumbered balance. |
3,977,156 | 5,676,222 | 5,739,970 | 4,621,421 | 1,905,622 | (1,705,216) | (5,962,339) |
11.010 Income Tax - RenewalAn existing income tax the district expects voters to renew. Not yet voted on. |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
11.020 Property Tax - Renewal or ReplacementExisting property tax levies the district expects voters to renew or replace. Not yet voted on. |
0 | 0 | 0 | 862,125 | 2,089,508 | 2,454,783 | 2,454,815 |
11.300 Cumulative Balance of Replacement/Renewal LeviesThe renewals above, added up year after year. |
0 | 0 | 0 | 862,125 | 2,951,633 | 5,406,416 | 7,861,231 |
12.010 Fund Balance June 30 For Certificates of Contracts Salary Schedules, and Other ObligationsThe balance if every renewal passes and nothing new does. |
3,977,156 | 5,676,222 | 5,739,970 | 5,483,546 | 4,857,255 | 3,701,200 | 1,898,892 |
13.010 Income Tax - NewA new income tax the district has written into its forecast. Not yet voted on. |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
13.020 Property Tax - NewA new property tax levy the district has written into its forecast. Not yet voted on. |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
13.030 Cumulative Balance of New LeviesThe new levies above, added up year after year. |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
15.010 Unreserved Fund Balance June 30The state's bottom line: the balance with renewals and new levies counted as if voters approve them. |
3,977,156 | 5,676,222 | 5,739,970 | 5,483,546 | 4,857,255 | 3,701,200 | 1,898,892 |
20.010 Kindergarten - October countKindergarten pupils enrolled, counted each October. |
93 | 102 | 122 | 96 | 98 | 86 | 93 |
20.015 Grades 1-12 - October countPupils in grades 1 to 12, counted each October. |
1,106 | 1,027 | 940 | 966 | 935 | 893 | 831 |
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Dollars, except the two enrolment lines (20.010 and 20.015), which are pupils. A line that is zero in every year is left out, as the state’s report leaves it out — except the renewal and new-levy lines (11 and 13), which are always shown, because a zero there is the answer.
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