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North Scott board hears fiscal-year-end report, approves bills and construction change orders
Summary
The North Scott Community School District board received a fiscal-year-end financial overview, approved bills presented for payment (including assessment and music invoices) and several construction change orders tied to Vision 2025 projects; staff also flagged FY26 planning and enrollment trends.
Unidentified Speaker 1 said the district's general fund finished the year with higher-than-expected balances, driven in part by increased interest income from open enrollment and several one-time revenues. "We've had a team a little bit with the general fund having increases in its balance this year," the presenter said, summarizing the fiscal-year 24 position.
The presenter reviewed other funds, reporting the activity fund remained roughly flat and the management fund increased modestly. The transcript records the SAFE/revenue-bond fund declining from about $20,000,000 to $8,000,000 as bond proceeds were spent on Vision 2025 projects; the presenter said the district expects those balances to continue to normalize once recurring costs from the initiative are fully budgeted.
At the meeting the board moved to approve bills presented for payment. The amount read into the record was given as "$3,000,000 $238,203"; individual invoices included a payment to Riverside Insights for about $8,024 for assessment materials and a West Music payment of about $2,268. A portion of a monthly school-based therapy service was noted as reimbursed by grant funds. The motion to approve the bills was seconded and recorded as passing.
The board also approved several construction contract items and change orders tied to ongoing building projects. The board approved a proposal from Premier Plastering and Drywall presented in the packet (listed in the meeting as $15,660), approved a small deductive change order to Rock River, and approved larger change-order items related to junior-high and high-school work. Staff said some revenue bonds were nearly spent down; final contracts and timing will be confirmed as paperwork is completed.
Copies of the bills and change-order amounts were included in the board packet. The board asked staff for continued updates as projects progress and for additional outreach to parent groups and community stakeholders on forthcoming facilities open houses. The meeting then moved to the superintendent's report and calendar items.
Note on numbers and transcript clarity: some dollar figures and phrasings in the meeting transcript were unclear or garbled; where the record was ambiguous the article uses the figures as read into the meeting and notes uncertainty rather than altering the amounts.
