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Lakeland CFO presents monthly finance summary: budget balanced, PTA-funded pavilion noted
Summary
At the Sept. 2 work session, CFO Tristan Gately Sweat presented the first monthly finance report for the 2025–26 budget, saying the district’s budget is structurally balanced, noting timing-driven outliers and that a pavilion paid for by the PTA produced a fund accounting variance.
Tristan Gately Sweat, Lakeland School System chief financial officer, presented the first monthly finance summary for the 2025–26 fiscal year at the board’s Sept. 2 work session, saying the district’s budget is structurally balanced and that initial expenditures reflect seasonal timing rather than overspending.
“This budget has revenues that can easily cover the expenses that we project,” Gately Sweat said, opening his presentation. He told the board the district was able to add 12th grade for the school year and avoided increases to meal prices and LEAP fees.
Gately Sweat explained two common timing issues that produced early outliers in the month-of-July report: the…
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