How District Funds are Expended

Where does funding come from and how do we spend it?

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State Revenue

The district receives funding from the state of Idaho, the federal government, and local property taxes. It's all taxpayer money, but it's distributed through different channels for different purposes. 

Ninety percent of our general fund comes from the state of Idaho through sales tax and 82% of it is used for salaries and benefits. The state of Idaho has a career ladder and teacher salaries are funded according to where a teacher falls on the ladder, based on their time in the profession.

$61 million is our total budget (2022 federal, state, local taxes)

$39 million goes to salaries and benefits

     

Operational Funds after salaries and benefits we have around 36% of our budget or $22 million left to operate on.

2% - $1.2 million goes to utilities (electric, gas, water, sewer, garbage, and phones)

6% - $4.1 million goes towards repaying the 2015 construction bond

10% - $6 million goes to purchased services (such as travel, professional development, contracted labor, copier leases, etc)

11% - $7 million on capital equipment and major repairs

2% - $1.3 million for liability insurance and fund transfers

 

That leaves only 4% of our budget for supplies and materials

4% - $2.4 million goes to purchase supplies (such as text books, classroom supplies, computers, software, office supplies, copy paper, classroom furnishings, etc)

 

We do this to attract and retain quality teachers and increase classroom and facility support staff.          

We have 5600 students housed at 17 schools.

When you look at the budget, and it appears "$61 million dollars is a lot of money." And it is, but only $7 million of that has any flexibility in spending and most of that is restricted to specific programs such as special ed, migrant, english learners, career technical, or school nutrition.

Supplemental Levies, support the operational/discretionary spending of school districts. The majority of things you notice in day to day school life are paid for from discretionary funding. Trustees analyze their budgets every year and have public hearings to get input on how to spend the smallest portion of their total budget.  

Levies offset shortages and help boost budgets that directly impact students.

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