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Budget committee flags $700,000 HRA encumbrance, rising PERS and fuel costs as risks to 2026–27 plan
Summary
CFO Dan Peterson told the committee an unexpected $700,000 HRA encumbrance and rising long-term PERS liabilities are material risks in the proposed 2026–27 budget; committee members also asked staff to review transportation fuel assumptions and district-wide special-education allocations.
At the North Wasco County SD 21 budget committee meeting, Chief Financial Officer Dan Peterson pointed to several items that could require technical adjustments before adoption: a roughly $700,000 HRA accounting encumbrance discovered in the budgeting system, a large PERS bill and transportation fuel assumptions that committee members said may be underbudgeted.
"There is this weird thing in the budgeting software...we had a $700,000…
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