District 67 to Address Budget Tonight

Golf School District 67 will discuss its finances, budget and possible cuts to programs tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Golf Middle School. 

Tonight's board meeting agenda is located at the right-hand side of this article. 

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District 67 Budget Breakdown

Over the past five years, Golf District 67 has struggled with balancing its budget. 

• 2006–07: The district turned in an unbalanced budget that spent around $1.68 million more than it made. The budget suggested that no deficit reduction plan was required at the time.
• 2007–08: This year's budget did a little better but followed suit, with expenses outpacing revenues by about $1.36 million, but this time a deficit reduction plan was requested. The resulting four-year strategy proposed spending cuts that would result in decreasing deficits until they arrived at a $307,000 surplus by 2010–11.
• 2008–09: Things kept improving, if only slightly. This time, Golf spent $1.28 million more than it made. However, the new deficit reduction plan scrapped any notion of having a surplus in 2010–11 (the new forecast was $147,981 in the red) but hoped to be $302,000 in the black by 2011–12.
• 2009–10: The district balanced its budge and finished with $203,413 more than it spent.
• 2010–11: The budget sank again to a $587,163 deficit—nearly $900,000 away from where the district had planned to be with its 2008 plan. This year, however, no deficit reduction plan was required.
• In those five years, even the one when the budget was balanced, the district overspent its educational fund—usually by several hundred thousand dollars and twice by more than $1 million.

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