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Former board member urges district to protect emergency budget reserve
Summary
In public comment at the Jan. 13 meeting, former board director Carol Jacobs urged the board to preserve the district’s budget reserve for catastrophic emergencies, saying the current reserve covers fewer than three months of operating costs.
Carol Jacobs, a former Clover Park School District board director, used the public-comment period Jan. 13 to urge the board to protect the district’s budget reserve for catastrophic emergencies such as large fires or earthquakes.
“We live in the shadow of Mount Rainier,” Jacobs said, urging the board to treat the reserve as a last-resort fund for extreme events. She told the board that the reserve currently holds less than three months of operating costs and said the fund should be preserved rather than used for negotiations or new initiatives.
Why it matters: Jacobs framed the reserve as an emergency backstop — not a cure for budget shortfalls or a source for new programs — and asked trustees to maintain it for disaster response and short-term continuity while insurance and other mechanisms take effect.
Her comments were the only public comment accepted during the meeting’s public-comment period; no formal board action on reserves was taken at the Jan. 13 meeting.
