by Jackie Nunnery
HEATHSVILLE—On top of $14.8 million in local funds already appropriated, acting superintendent Dr. Karen Leslie told supervisors at the Thursday, May 8, meeting the schools would need an additional $931,713 to finish out the 2025 fiscal year which ends June 30.
In addition to last month’s budget shortage due to $885,000 paid out of this year’s budget instead of last year’s, Leslie said there was $572,184 in additional unplanned expenses, among them $248,000 in state special education funds that must be returned and $249,000 in federal reconciliation.
While projecting that $100,000 in reimbursements would arrive before the end of the fiscal year, Leslie said the figures presented represented “a worst-case scenario,” noting the difficulty in determining when revenues would show up. “Some of it may come in by the end of June, some if it may come in July, August or September, which would be reimbursements for spending in 24-25.”
Despite the grim budgetary news….
