Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
REARDAN — The school board approved the 2023-24 district budget at its regular meeting Wednesday, July 26. Funds were budgeted based on a projected enrollment of 736 students, 51.031 certificated employees and 44.501 classified employees.
The district is budgeting for $13,533,924 in total revenues and $13,547,208. The slight budget gap created would be filled by reducing beginning fund balance of $2,850,000 to $2,436,716 in the ending fund balance.
Expenditures filtered by program groups include:
• $6,330,603 for regular instruction
• $709,847 for federal special purpose funding
• $1,186,272 for special education instruction
• $572,166 for vocational instruction
• $940,197 for compensatory education
• $21,500 for other instructional programs
• $3,786,623 for support services
Expenditures filtered by activity groups include:
• $7,217,037 for teaching activities
• $1,692,632 for teaching support
• $2,935,569 for other supportive activities
• $479,053 for building administration
• $1,222,917 for central administration
Expenditures filtered by objects include:
• $4,386,925 for certificated salaries
• $2,395,796 for classified salaries
• $2,820,943 for employee benefits and payroll taxes
• $1,541,429 for supplies, instructional resources and noncapitalized items
• $2,110,384 for purchased services
• $56,151 for travel
• $235,580 for capital outlay
Revenue sources are budgeted for the following:
• $1,390,817 from local property taxes
• $384,471 in local nontax support
• $7,346,073 in general purpose state funds
• $2,526,859 in special purpose state funds
• $1,860,704 in special purpose federal funds
• $25,000 in revenue from other entities
Local support outside property taxes include:
• $24,971 in tuition and fees
• $4,000 in childcare tuition and fees
• $25,000 in sales of goods, supplies and service
• $86,000 in sales of school food services
• $100,000 in gifts and donations
• $19,500 in fines and damages
• $80,000 in insurance recoveries
• $45,000 in unassigned local support
Special purpose state funds are assigned to the following funds:
• $886,876 for special education
• $218,799 for learning assistance
• $441,011 for special and pilot programs
• $14,903 for transitional bilingual programs
• $22,025 for Highly Capable programs
• $9,940 for food services
• $932,805 for transportation services
• $500 in unassigned state funding
Special purpose federal funds are assigned from the following sources:
• $50,000 in ESSER III funds
• $400,000 in ESSER III learning loss funds
• $241,500 in CARES act funds
• $177,000 for supplemental special education
• $16,204 for secondary vocational education
• $275,000 for ESEA disadvantaged
• $55,000 for school improvements
• $325,000 for food services
• $32,000 for ESEA school improvement grants
• $77,000 in unassigned federal grants
Full copies of the budget are available by records request with the district office.
Drew Lawson is the editor of the Davenport Times. He is a graduate of Eastern Washington University.
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