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North Santiam board warned of roughly $1 million biennium squeeze as salary costs climb
Summary
Business director said payroll and biennial funding timing will tighten the district’s general fund this year, projecting a roughly $1 million revenue–expenditure gap despite higher property-tax receipts and grant carryover.
Rhonda Allen, the district’s director of business and fiscal services, told the North Santiam School District Board that a combination of collective-bargaining-driven salary increases and the state’s 49/51 biennial funding split is creating a tighter general-fund outlook for the current school year.
“Our general fund budget was $32,000,000. I’m projecting we’re gonna land around $33,000,000,” Allen said, then explained the effect of higher personnel costs: “Those salaries have bumped up to 23 [million]. So that is a $1,900,000 increase where the state school fund only…
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