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Sumner-Bonney Lake CFO outlines preliminary 2025–26 budget, warns of federal-program uncertainty
Summary
Chief Financial Officer Brian Berley presented the district’s preliminary 2025–26 budget, projecting general-fund revenues of roughly $207 million, expenditures near $215 million and a falling fund balance; he warned that about $400,000 in federal program funding is uncertain and said staffing and benefit costs are the largest expense drivers.
Chief Financial Officer Brian Berley presented the Sumner Bonney Lake School District’s preliminary 2025–26 budget during a special budget hearing on July 16, saying the document is a point-in-time plan required by state law and will come to the board for adoption next month.
Berley gave high-level figures for the general fund and said the district expects about $207 million in general-fund revenues and general-fund expenditures of about $214.9 million plus a $2.6 million transfer to capital projects. He said the district projects enrollment growth of roughly 50 students (about 0.5 percent) and described the prototypical funding…
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