School Finance

School districts contract with us for business management, budget consulting and development, year-end closing, accounts payable, and payroll services.

We help schools interpret laws and regulations on school finance; the Accounting Manual for School Districts; OSPI financial bulletins and memoranda; and the Administrative, Budgeting, and Financial Reporting Policies and Procedures Handbook. Our team assists with planning and monitoring long- and short-term cash flow, including debt service. We review and approve annual budgets and financial statements, prepare Special Education Safety Net applications, and review and compare financial and management practices.

We help schools with student enrollment eligibility, counting, and reporting timelines. Our services include budget planning, estimating, hearing procedures, and reporting timelines. We assist with monthly and annual financial statement reporting procedures and timelines, personnel reporting procedures and timelines, and applications for basic education funding eligibility reporting procedures and timelines. We also support K–3 class-size funding requirements.

The Regional Committee is a group of citizens who volunteer to help school districts transfer territory from one district to another and dissolve or annex a school district. They resolve issues related to capital fund aid by non-high districts and maintain a full and correct transcript of our region's school district boundaries. The committee also handles changes to the boundaries of school director districts.