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County finance offers three options to fund schools after quarterly appropriations 'got off the rails'
Summary
County finance staff recommended fully appropriating the school's annual allocation while holding discretionary funds and encumbering known large payments; the board asked staff to prepare implementation plans for two- and three-payment variants for next week.
County finance staff reviewed three options for next year's school appropriation at the April 30 meeting after the board's experiment with quarterly appropriations proved difficult to administer. Staff told the board that splitting the annual appropriation into four equal quarters had repeatedly required supplemental advance appropriations because historical data do not support reliably identifying which vendor payments fall in each quarter.
The three options presented were: repeat quarterly appropriations…
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