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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
District 91 adopts 2023 budget with $6.04 million deficit
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Budget allocates $1,120,000 to build, staff new STEAM Lab By IGOR STUDENKOV Staff Reporter
Forest Park’s public elementary schools will end the school year with a budget deficit of a little over $6.04 million. District 91’s school board approved that budget unanimously last week based in part on a healthy fund balance that would leave the district with $18.37 million even after the 2022-2023 fiscal year deficit. The annual budget was adopted during the board’s Sept. 8 meeting. It has been adjusted from the preliminary version released during an Aug. 11 meeting. The district has a better sense of the economic indicators that will affect its property tax revenue, and the final budget includes some expenses that weren’t finalized a month ago. Most notably, the final budget sets aside $1 million to build two new STEAM lab learning spaces at Forest Park Middle School and Field-Stevenson Intermediate Elementary School, both at 925 Beloit Ave., and $120,000 to hire and train the teachers that will use the See D91 BUDGET on page 9
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