A miscommunication between local entities meant a state payment to D21 schools that should have arrived in June won’t come until probably next week.
“There’s been a little bit of a disconnect in the accounting world at the county,” Chief Financial Officer Randy Anderson told the North Wasco School District 21 board Sept. 24.
The money — usually $180,000 to $200,000 each year — was due by the end of the fiscal year that concluded June 30. When the money didn’t show by mid-September, Anderson called the county about it.
The money is from the county school fund, and the bulk of it comes from federal forest fees, Anderson said. The money sits in Salem in the Local Government Investment Pool, Anderson said. It is just passed through the county’s books before being given to the school district.
The county doesn’t release the money to the school districts, however, until it receives distribution calculations — based on enrollment — from the regional Education Service District.
Wasco County had a shuffle in its financial personnel earlier this calendar year. It stripped its elected assessor of most of his duties, forwarding them instead to the finance department.
Then, the county’s financial director left for another position in Hood River. Information about how the transaction is usually done apparently fell through the cracks, Anderson said.
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