The Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board approved a revision to its annual financial report from fiscal year 2021-22 at its Sept. 26 meeting.
The revision from two years ago relates to funds associated with Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and comes in an area meant to verify IDEA “maintenance of effort” — a requirement that obligates any public education agency receiving the funds to budget and spend at least the same amount of state and local funds for the education of children with disabilities on a year-to-year basis.
The original AFR reported the district’s expenditures total for disabilities classifications was $48.38 million, while the revision put the number at $48.9 million.
The change decreases the maintenance and operations budget balance carry forward by the difference of $520,000 into fiscal year 2022-23 and then 2023-24, but it will increase the carry forward for IDEA funds by that amount, Associate Superintendent Bonnie Betz said.
As a result, Betz said there is no economic impact to the district’s available resources from the change, which the board accepted on a 5-0 vote.
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Meet Tom Tom Blodgett joined Independent Newsmedia, Inc., USA, in 2022, when the company acquired Community Impact Newspaper's Phoenix-area properties. Raised in Arizona, he has spent more than 35 years in journalism in the state.
Community: He has served as an instructional professional in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication since 2005, and is editorial adviser to The State Press, the university's independent student media outlet. He also is director of operations for an 18U girls fastpitch softball team from Gilbert.
Education: Arizona State University with a BS in Journalism.
Random Fact: He lived in Belgium during his freshman year of high school.
Hobbies: Tweeting enthusiastically about ASU softball (season-ticket holder) and grumpily about other local sports (pessimistic fan).
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