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Anaheim Elementary board approves first interim budget, flags multiyear deficits
Summary
The Anaheim Elementary School District board on Dec. 18 approved a first interim budget showing a $14.7 million deficit in 2024–25 and larger projected shortfalls in subsequent years, and approved related personnel and fiscal items including a CSEA tentative agreement and a ratified one-student SELPA placement.
The Anaheim Elementary School District Board of Education on Dec. 18 approved its 2024–25 first interim budget and issued a "positive" certification that the district can meet financial obligations for the current and following two years, while warning of multiyear deficit spending.
Assistant Superintendent of Administrative Services Matthew Slusser told the board that the budget snapshot, based on data through Oct. 31, assumes average daily attendance of about 13,644 and an 89% unduplicated pupil percentage. He cited a STRS rate of 19.1% and a PERS rate of about 27.05% and said the district is moving from one-time funds used during the pandemic. "We are deficit spending," Slusser said as he laid out a three-year projection.
The budget shows a 2024–25 gap of roughly $14.7 million (revenues about $311.3 million,…
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