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Board approves full budget committee as finance staff flag May adjustments and $200K fund‑balance change
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Summary
The board voted to appoint a full seven‑person budget committee (Resolution 2026‑2) and heard from finance director Scott Piller about steady enrollment but an offset near $200,000 in the district fund‑balance tied to charter‑school payments and anticipated $950,000 transfers in June.
The Estacada School District board on April 8 approved Resolution 2026‑2 to appoint and reappoint members to a seven‑person budget committee immediately, marking the first time in recent memory the district will have a full committee to review next year’s budget.
Finance director Scott Piller told the board enrollment is essentially steady but reported a decline of about $200,000 in the red fund‑balance figure, a change he said is mostly the result of paying charter‑school tuition that exceeded budgeted amounts. Piller said the district is targeting an ending fund balance of about $5,500,000 and will present a draft balanced budget next month. "That number went down about $200,000, a little less than that, mostly because... we're actually paying our charter school more money," Piller said.
Piller outlined cash‑flow timing issues and a typical inflow of intergovernmental revenue from the education service district in June; staff flagged an expected $950,000 in transfers in June that are part of the usual year‑end transfer process to funds such as technology and capital projects. The board asked staff to model cash‑flow impacts from charter‑school and virtual‑school enrollment changes and staff agreed to produce that analysis.
During discussion, a board member asked whether the district can produce an aggregated accounting of activity and fundraising revenue for athletics and student activities; Piller described multiple "pots" of money (district‑managed activity funds and outside fundraising) and monthly reconciliations and agreed staff can compile consolidated figures.
Resolution 2026‑2 was moved and seconded by board members and carried (vote recorded as "motion carries"). The meeting record did not include a roll‑call vote tally in the transcript, only the board's indication that the motion carried.
