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Northern Lehigh previews budget: ESSER phase‑out, staffing shifts and capital priorities
Summary
District leaders outlined the preliminary 2024–25 budget picture: ESSER funds are winding down, administrators recommended retaining a small set of mission‑critical positions while repurposing some contract savings to add paraeducators and a district BCBA, and they listed capital priorities including a grant‑eligible asbestos/flooring project.
District administrators presented a preliminary look at 2024–25 budget priorities focused on staffing and facilities as ESSER funds near expiration.
The district reported ESSER I and II balances are fully expended and ESSER III has remaining encumbered monies (administration estimated roughly $522,000) and about $198,000 unencumbered. "ESSER 3… our remaining encumbered monies are roughly about $522,000. The remaining unencumbered amount is roughly about a $198,000," an administrator said, and added that those dollars are earmarked for positions and summer programming that must be spent by September 2024.
Administrators proposed retaining four ESSER‑funded positions they described as mission‑critical — a district ELDP…
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