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Longview School District sees narrow preliminary surplus as board readies July public review
Summary
Longview School District presented a preliminary 2025–26 budget showing roughly $360,000 in excess revenue over expenses, outlined upcoming public-review dates and flagged risks from pending state and federal allocations and one-time fund-balance uses.
Bonnie Bowen, the district’s executive director of business services, told the Longview School Board on June 23 that preliminary figures for the 2025–26 budget show $122,500,000 in revenues and $122,200,000 in expenditures, leaving an estimated $360,000 excess at this stage of development.
The board received the update as the district finalizes assumptions for salaries, benefits and categorical funding. Bowen said the district is accounting for a 2.5% salary adjustment (IPD) and changes to benefits generated by the state’s prototypical funding model, and noted the numbers remain “preliminary” and subject to change as OSPI and federal allocations are finalized.
Bowen said the district compared the preliminary 2025–26 figures with the 2024–25 approved budget, when revenues were about $116,000,000 and expenditures almost $118,000,000, including a one-time use of fund balance of approximately $1,600,000. She told the board the district…
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