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PAGE 6 - SOUTHWEST MESSENGER - <strong>December</strong> 15, <strong>2019</strong><br />
www.columbusmessenger.com<br />
School district ends year on positive financial note<br />
By Dedra Cordle<br />
Staff Writer<br />
A review of the 2018-<strong>2019</strong> fiscal year was presented at<br />
the Dec. 9 South-Western City Schools Board of Education<br />
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In Education<br />
meeting. The figures presented indicated an increase in<br />
revenue, a moderate change in expenditures and a positive<br />
cash balance in the general fund.<br />
According to Hugh Garside, the district’s treasurer, revenue<br />
was up 5.7 percent from the previous fiscal year.<br />
“That is a $15.2 million increase in revenue,” he<br />
said.<br />
That increase was largely contributed to an<br />
expanding tax base through the construction of new<br />
subdivisions and businesses.<br />
“We are seeing a lot of good growth with all of<br />
these homes and businesses going up,” Garside said.<br />
Another avenue of revenue increase was through<br />
state funding. Garside said the district received an<br />
additional $9 million last year. Other avenues of<br />
expansion, he said, are through interest earnings,<br />
which was reported as $2.4 million.<br />
With all of the funding sources combined, the district’s<br />
total general fund revenue was $283 million.<br />
There was a moderate change in expenditures,<br />
said Garside.<br />
“We saw slightly less of an increase from the last<br />
fiscal year.”<br />
He said the district continues to spend 73 cents out of<br />
every dollar on direct instructional activities. Direct<br />
instructional activities include salaries and benefits, supplies,<br />
teacher aide personnel, guidance, curriculum development<br />
and library/audio services.<br />
The other 27 cents is spent on functional categories<br />
such as administration, plant maintenance, transportation<br />
and extracurricular.<br />
Combined, the district’s total general fund expenditure<br />
for the fiscal year was $259.95 million.<br />
Garside also spoke of the district’s other expenditure<br />
funds, which account for specific services and programming.<br />
He said capital outlay is expected to increase when the<br />
district begins its middle school build project with the Ohio<br />
Facilities Construction Commission, while the enterprise<br />
funds (food service) is expected to maintain its status “in<br />
the black.”<br />
“Our food service operation has been a shining star,” he<br />
said of the $10.4 million operation.<br />
Altogether, Garside said the 2018-<strong>2019</strong> fiscal year was<br />
a positive one for the district and he believed it will be<br />
maintained in the upcoming fiscal years.<br />
Volunteers needed for tax preparation<br />
The AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program, which<br />
provides free tax preparation, primarily for senior citizens,<br />
at the Grove City Church of the Nazarene and<br />
many other locations across the state is seeking volunteer<br />
tax preparers for next year.<br />
From Feb. 1 through April 15, 10 volunteers prepared<br />
more than 600 federal and state tax returns at<br />
the Grove City Church of the Nazarene, saving clients<br />
an estimated $120,000 in tax<br />
preparation fees. Last tax season,<br />
Tax-Aide had to turn away countless seniors<br />
because more people wanted the service than could be<br />
helped. Anyone who does his/her own taxes on a commercially<br />
available program is an ideal candidate for<br />
the volunteer opportunity. Volunteers receive IRSapproved<br />
training. They are asked to work at least one<br />
day a week during the 10 to 11-week tax season.<br />
For more information about volunteering, contact<br />
William Evans at 614-885-0938 or<br />
wlevans88@gmail.com.<br />
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