Juneau School District is eligible for more city money than it initially thought.<\/p>\n
That’s because the number of students within the district exceeded projections, which determined the<\/a> cap on what City and Borough of Juneau could contribute to the <\/a>district<\/a>.<\/p>\n “There is an opportunity for the City and Borough of Juneau Assembly to provide $279,000 in additional funding to the cap,” Juneau School District Chief of Staff Kristin Bartlett said Wednesday in a phone interview.<\/p>\n That discrepancy is because during the budget-making process, projections for the number of students within the district are used to determine how much funding the district anticipates receiving from the state. The amount of funding from the state determines what amount of money City and Borough of Juneau can contribute to the district.<\/p>\n After the official counting period concluded in October, it was determined the district had 43 more students than projected, Bartlett said.<\/p>\n That meant an additional $1.2 million from the state, and an increase in $279,452 to the local contribution cap.<\/p>\n At Tuesday’s school district meeting, the board voted to request funding to the cap.<\/p>\n Back in April, School Board President Brian Holst outlined exactly this sort of scenario at a CBJ budget-making meeting.<\/p>\n