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Westerville superintendent warns proposed 25% cash cap would force cuts
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Westerville City Schools Superintendent Angie Hamburg told the Ohio House Finance Committee that an amendment to the budget to let the auditor suspend property tax collections for districts with cash balances above 25% would force program cuts and repeated levies.
Angie Hamburg, superintendent of Westerville City School District, told the Ohio House Finance Committee on April 8 that an amendment that would allow the auditor to suspend property tax collections for any district with a cash balance over 25% would quickly exhaust the district’s reserves and force deep program cuts.
Hamburg said the district serves nearly 15,000 students across Franklin and Delaware counties, employs nearly 2,000 people and uses its unreserved cash balance as a planned stopgap while it transitions positions off one-time federal funds. “The only band aid we have right now is our cash balance, and like many districts, losing it abruptly would be catastrophic for us,” Hamburg said.
The superintendent told…
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