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Northshore School District projects improved balance but warns of speakered funding gaps
Summary
District staff reported October enrollment above budget, a rebuilding fund balance, a projected special-education shortfall and potential June cash-flow pressure; the board agreed to monitor levy receipts and asked staff to return with a borrowing resolution if needed.
Superintendent Justin Irish and finance staff told the Northshore School District board at a study session that enrollment is higher than the budgeted projection and that the district's fund balance is improving, but material funding gaps remain in special education and basic education.
Chris Bergen, the district's budget presenter, said October full-time equivalent enrollment was 21,449 compared with a budgeted figure of about 20,091, leaving roughly 458 FTE above budget as of October. "October FTE was 21,449," Bergen said, and the district is seeing gains at elementary and high-school levels while running-start participation has grown compared with the pandemic dip.
Bergen told the board that special education continues to outpace state funding. "We budgeted a deficit of about $21,500,000"…
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