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Deuel School District board adopts final budget and levies, approves hires and modest meal-price increases
Summary
The Deuel School District 19‑4 board adopted its final FY budget and certified levies, approved multiple staff hires and vendor contracts, and authorized small increases to student meal prices after reviewing updated revenues, a corrected SPED line item and a REAP grant. Key operational items (bus surplus, fuel vendor) were also approved.
The Deuel School District 19‑4 board on an August meeting adopted its final fiscal-year budget and certified levies, approved a slate of personnel hires and vendor contracts, and authorized modest increases to school meal prices.
Board chair opened the meeting and the business manager, Ellen, reviewed line-by-line changes to the draft budget, highlighting a roughly $26,000 increase in elementary general‑fund costs (partly corrections and insurance enrollment changes), a $47,700 federal REAP grant that increases high-school capital revenue and expenses equally, and a $110,000 rise in the SPED line that Ellen described as “a typo on my part.” The board discussed transfers required to move capital outlay funds into the general fund and then into programs such as preschool and food service, the impact of rising property insurance and maintenance costs, and an updated general‑fund balance estimate. After discussion the board voted to adopt the budget and…
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