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Business & Finance

The Chehalis School District Business & Finance Department stewards public resources with integrity and foresight, ensuring every dollar serves our students and community. Through responsible fiscal management and conservative budgeting practices, we maintain financial solvency that enables educational excellence today and secures opportunity for tomorrow.

The depatrtment is responsible for developing and maintaining the Chehalis School District’s annual budget and overseeing payroll and benefits for our employees. The department also provides revenue and expenditure analysis; staffing and enrollment analysis; and levy, bond, and debt calculations and analysis.

The Chehalis School District is committed to ensuring transparency and accountability for taxpayer funds. The district’s financial professionals follow conservative planning and cautious oversight in tandem with our our District’s mission and vision. Budgeting decisions are also informed by input from our administrators, school board and a citizen’s advisory committee. It is our hope that the Chehalis community trusts that we are being good stewards of their hard-earned money.

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Heather C. Pinkerton, Chief Financial Officer

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Teresa Madrid, District Accountant

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Kristina Sherman, Accounts Payable Technician

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Gladis Mendez, Business & Operations Specialist

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ASB Fund Reports

Our District is required by law to post certain data related to associated student body fund accounts. This includes: Data related to high school student possession of an associated student body card and high school student participation in school-based extracurricular activities collected under RCW 28A.320.540; and the school district's extracurricular activity opportunity gap reduction plan if required under RCW 28A.320.580; and a list of optional noncredit extracurricular event attendance and participation fees and the school district policy for waiving and reducing these fees as described under RCW 28A.325.010. School districts must add updated annual information to their websites by each August 31st, except that school districts are only required to maintain the information on the website from the previous five years.