The numbers are very much up in the air since the Legislature could still overhaul school finance in a special session after failing to do so in the regular session that ended last week, said Karl Kacir, district assistant superintendent of operations and the man in charge of the local school budget process.
But the district has a legal obligation to adopt a budget for next year by June 30, so it must proceed based on the best current information it has, Kacir said.
His office estimates that the district will run a general fund deficit in 2005-06 of just under $350,000 out of a budget of just more than $53 million.
The general fund can afford the loss in 2005-06 because of a surplus it ran in 2004-05.
That surplus was thanks to an unexpected jump in the tax appraisal district
