Medical Lake schools come out ahead in state budget

If Medical Lake School District finance director Chad Moss had his way, school funding would be much simpler and less fluid.

So much for wishful thinking.

“There’s a lot of unknowns still,” Moss said of budgeting in general, a newly mandated state health benefits package that takes effect in 2020, and how it all will affect school district finances.

The good news is the budget, which has yet to be completed for the next school year, appears to be well in the black with some wiggle room for known budgetary unknowns.

Now that the dust has settled on the 11th hour budget finalized by the 2019 sta...