Taking a closer peek at ML's school budget

While many staff members have been enjoying their summer break, Medical Lake central administrators like Superintendent Tim Ames and Chad Moss, director of finance, have been involved in getting things in line for 2018-19.

For Ames, that has meant working with staff at various levels and have them agree to a new three-year contract. If he reads things right, that will have already been done by now as negotiations were supposed to have wrapped up on Aug. 15 with the contract put before the school board Aug. 28 for their approval.

That effort received a big assist from Moss who helped provide so...