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Elizabethtown Area SD preliminary budget projects $1.48 million deficit; finance review highlights reserves and ESSER effects
Summary
At a May 13 workshop the district's finance chair reviewed 12 years of audits, explained how ESSER federal funds distorted recent averages, and presented a preliminary 2025–26 budget that shows a $1,481,365 shortfall expected to be covered from fund balance absent other changes.
The Elizabethtown Area School District finance committee presented a 12-year audit review and a preliminary budget update May 13 that projects a $1,481,365 deficit for 2025–26, to be drawn from the district's fund balance unless the board changes revenue or spending plans.
The preliminary numbers matter because the shortfall would reduce reserves that the district has used in recent years and because one-time federal pandemic funds (ESSER) boosted recent revenues and expenses, making multi-year averages less predictive of future baselines.
"So the total that as of today the preliminary budget will be a negative $1,481,365," finance committee speaker Mr. Strickler told the board. Strickler walked trustees through fund-balance history dating to 2013–14, noting that each fund (general, capital projects, food services, internal service…
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