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Audit results key to USD 363 funding
Published 2/6/2010 in Local News
By MONICA SPRINGER
The Holcomb USD 363 Board of Education will be updated Monday night on an internal audit of its enrollment that holds more than $90,000 in state funding in the balance.
The audit, which will be performed by the Kansas State Department of Education, is important, Superintendent Demitry Evancho said, because it will determine whether the district can keep $91,000 or have to give it back to the state. The audit will be performed next week.
"It's critical," Evancho said.
The audit will give the school district a final count on its full-time equivalency numbers. In the funding formula school districts use, a student in first grade through high school is counted as one. Kindergarten students are counted as .5.
School districts receive more funding for some students, including at-risk students, bilingual students and students who are in vocational programs or ride the bus.
Evancho said during a September 2009 head count that the district was two students over the 40 percent threshold for at-risk students that results in additional funding.
If the audit reveals that the student population has changed since September and the district has fewer at-risk students, the district might have to give that money back to the state, Evancho said.
Evancho said a decision on whether to hire additional coaches for middle school spring sports could depend on the audit. He said he would know after the district's audit next week if the funds are available for the additional supplemental contracts.
Also on the agenda:
* In new business, the board will consider naming the golf driving range after Tanner Born, a Holcomb High School graduate and former golfer who died in December.
* The board also will look at newly drawn floor plans for Holcomb Elementary School. In previous meetings, the board has considered renovating the school to make room for third-grade students currently attending Wiley Elementary school. There will be no action taken on this agenda item, Evancho said.
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