Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
DAVENPORT — The school board approved the district 2023-24 budget at its regular meeting Monday, July 31. The district constructed its budget around a projected enrollment of 591 K-12 students, 53.826 certificated employees and 34.778 classified employees.
The district is budgeting for $10,567,156 in total revenues and $10,744,668 in expenditures, which would create a projected ending fund balance of $861,848 from a beginning fund balance of $1,067,000.
Expenditures by program groups include:
• $5,424,157 to regular instruction
• $141,000 to federal special purpose funding
• $1,025,706 to special education
• $726,510 to vocational instruction
• $100 to Skill Center instruction
• $986,520 to compensatory education
• $161,909 to other instructional programs
• $2,278,766 to support services
Expenditures by activity groups include:
• $6,749,228 to teaching activities
• $1,157,178 to teaching support
• $1,641,918 to supportive activities
• $549,347 to building administration
• $646,997 to central administration
Expenditures by objects include:
• $4,273,396 to certificated salaries
• $1,829,255 to classified salaries
• $2,570,924 to employee benefits and payroll taxes
• $1,380,972 to supplies, instructional resources and noncapitalized items
• $643,171 to purchased services
• $30,950 to travel
• $16,000 to capital overlay
Revenue sources include:
• $794,102 from local taxes
• $195,000 from local nontax support
• $6,509,872 in general purpose state funds
• $1,543,326 in special purpose state funds
• $1,524,856 in special purpose federal funds
Local nontax support comes from the following sources:
• $18,000 from tuitions and fees
• $2,500 from the sales of goods, supplies and services
• $65,000 from sales of school food services
• $8,500 from investment earnings
• $25,000 in gifts and donations
• $1,000 from fines and damages
• $25,000 in unassigned local support
• $50,000 in e-rate
Special purpose state funds are assigned to the following funds:
• $762,923 to special education
• $207,060 to learning assistance
• $26,964 for special and pilot programs
• $17,662 to Highly Capable programs
• $3,617 for food services
• $473,361 for transportation operations
• $51,739 to special and pilot programs-other state agencies
Special purpose federal funds are assigned to the following funds:
• $250,000 in OSPI funds
• $158,511 for Transition to Kindergarten programs
• $141,473 in ESSER III funds
• $133,979 in supplemental special education funds
• $5,100 for secondary vocational education
• $169,332 for ESEA disadvantaged
• $100,000 for school improvements
• $225,000 for food services
• $233,820 in direct special purpose grants
• $97,429 in federal grants through other agencies
• $2,672 for supplemental special education
A full copy of the 2023-24 budget is available through records request with the school district.
Drew Lawson is the editor of the Davenport Times. He is a graduate of Eastern Washington University.
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