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Tacoma Public Schools highlights transportation, special education budget pressures in monthly financial update
Summary
Kari Campan presented year-to-date December financials, noting timing mismatches between revenues and expenses, rising costs for special education and transportation, and mitigation steps including route efficiency and a community budget committee.
Kari Campan, director of strategic financial operations for Tacoma Public Schools, presented the district’s year-to-date financial report through December at the Jan. 23 board meeting and warned of continuing budget pressures tied to the state funding model, transportation and special education costs.
Campan said the district accounts operate like separate “checkbooks” and that local tax receipts arrive on schedules that do not match day-to-day operations. “The timing of the revenues that we receive don't always match the expenditures that we have,” she said, noting…
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