{"id":2340,"date":"2025-05-06T15:55:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2025-05-06T16:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:50:46","slug":"updated-lcff-calculator-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/?p=2340","title":{"rendered":"Updated LCFF Calculator Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">Dear School Business Professionals,<br \/>\nFCMAT has released an updated version of the LCFF Calculator.  You can access the calculator on the FCMAT Website here:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcmat.org\/lcff\">www.fcmat.org\/lcff<\/a><br \/>\nThis calculator can be used to assist in completing your 2025-26 LCAP preview documents.<br \/>\nNOTE:  The 2025-26 LCFF Calculator must match the May Revision factors for the final board approved LCAP.<br \/>\nIf you have any questions, please contact your District Financial Advisor.<br \/>\nRegards,<br \/>\nSchool Business Advisory Services Team Santa Barbara County Education Office <a href=\"https:\/\/sbasweb.sbceo.org\">sbasweb.sbceo.org<\/a><br \/>\nNote: This message was sent on behalf of the School Business Advisory Services Team. Please do not respond to this message. Replies will be routed to an unmonitored mailbox.<br \/>\nTo unsubscribe, click here<<a href=\"mailto:sbasfinance@sbceo.org?subject=Unsubscribe\">mailto:<a href=\"mailto:sbasfinance@sbceo.org?subject=Unsubscribe\" >sbasfinance@sbceo.org?subject=Unsubscribe<\/a><\/a>><br \/>\nFrom: Roslynne Manansala-Smith <<a href=\"mailto:000000c4da221bdb-dmarc-request@LISTS.FCMAT.ORG\" >000000c4da221bdb-dmarc-request@LISTS.FCMAT.ORG<\/a>> Sent: Sunday, May 4, 2025 7:33 PM To: <a href=\"mailto:LCFF-CALCULATOR@LISTS.FCMAT.ORG\" >LCFF-CALCULATOR@LISTS.FCMAT.ORG<\/a> Subject: [LCFF] School District &#038; Charter School LCFF Calculator Update (version 26.1a posted May 2, 2025)<br \/>\nVersion: 26.1a Release Date: May 2 , 2025<br \/>\nSince the final data point needed to calculate the 2025-26 statutory COLA for K-14 education was received as of April 30, 2025, we have updated the 2025-26 COLA to 2.30% in the LCFF calculator. COLA assumptions for 2026-27 to 2029-30 will be updated following the release of the May Revision.<br \/>\n 2025-26* updated 2026-27 2027-28 2028-29 2029-30 Statutory COLA 2.30% 3.52% 3.63% 3.49% 3.39%<br \/>\nLEAs can either:<br \/>\n*   Download the updated version 26.1a, or *   Manually update the 2025-26 COLA in cell M15 on the Data Entry tab of the current version 26.1.<\/p>\n<p>Remember! This email distribution list is announcement based only. Do not respond to this email. To request assistance, please submit a question through the FCMAT Help Desk and select the LCFF &#8211;  Districts or LCFF &#8211; Charter Schools  subject. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcmat.org\/helpdesk\">www.fcmat.org\/helpdesk<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image001.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n Thanks, Roslynne Manansala-Smith FCMAT Intervention Specialist<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image002.png\"\/> <a href=\"mailto:rmanansala-smith@fcmat.org\" >rmanansala-smith@fcmat.org<\/a><<a href=\"mailto:rmanansala-smith@fcmat.org\">mailto:<a href=\"mailto:rmanansala-smith@fcmat.org\" >rmanansala-smith@fcmat.org<\/a><\/a>> Ph: (530) 919-4931 cell<br \/>\n &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- LCFF-CALCULATOR Listserv Policies<<a href=\"http:\/\/fcmat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/02\/FCMATListservPolicyListservU.pdf\">fcmat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/02\/FCMATListservPolicyListservU.pdf<\/a>> Unsubscribe me<<a href=\"mailto:LCFF-CALCULATOR-signoff-request@lists.fcmat.org\">mailto:<a href=\"mailto:LCFF-CALCULATOR-signoff-request@lists.fcmat.org\" >LCFF-CALCULATOR-signoff-request@lists.fcmat.org<\/a><\/a>> from the LCFF-CALCULATOR Listserv. Contact FCMAT if you have questions or concerns<<a href=\"mailto:LCFF-CALCULATOR-request@lists.fcmat.org\">mailto:<a href=\"mailto:LCFF-CALCULATOR-request@lists.fcmat.org\" >LCFF-CALCULATOR-request@lists.fcmat.org<\/a><\/a>>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear School Business Professionals, FCMAT has released an updated version&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/?p=2340\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Updated LCFF Calculator Now Available<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reporting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}