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Business director tells budget committee supplemental shifts move federal forest fees to reserves; year-end balance projected at roughly $7M
Summary
At a budget-committee meeting, the district business director described a supplemental budget that moves prior-year federal forest (Secure Rural Schools) payments into reserve accounts, reduces some interfund transfers, accounts for negotiated pay increases and projects an ending general-fund balance in the low millions depending on final receipts and encumbrances.
The district business director told the budget committee the supplemental budget approved by the board in February reallocated several large items and adjusted estimates for fiscal year 2526, including moving prior-year federal forest fee payments into reserve accounts rather than leaving them in the general fund. The director said the shift was intended to preserve those one-time funds for construction and textbook adoptions rather than treating them as recurring revenue.
The director said local property taxes rose by roughly $260,000 and intermediate revenues increased by a similar amount; state grant dollars and the state school fund were revised upward by about $551,000 after the district…
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