The Six Line Items the State Named. Padded for Nine More Years.
In December 2016, the State Comptroller named six budget line items Jericho UFSD was overestimating: teacher salaries, Students With Disabilities, insurance, contract transportation, plant maintenance, State retirement. Across the nine audits since, every one of those categories came in under Final Budget every single year — $91.9 million cumulative, 86.6 percent of the District's entire post-audit operating gap. When the underspend started to shrink, the surplus did not. The fulcrum just moved to the revenue side
