During the Aug. 16 meeting of the Navajo County Community College District Governing Board, Associate Vice President and Northland Pioneer College Chief Business Officer Maderia Ellison updated the board with a wrap up of last year’s revenues and expenditures showing that the college kept spending below its budget.

In the general unrestricted fund, she reported that the primary tax levy was $14,399,562, which was $37,593 higher than was budgeted for the last fiscal year, but Ellison emphasized some of that was due to timing, with some of the taxes from the previous year being paid in the last fiscal year. “There’s always about a five percent lag,” she said.

Total expenditures were at 85 percent of the budgeted total, with salaries and wages at 90 percent. The remaining balances were at 73 percent.

“Overall, we were under budget for the year,” said Ellison.

Expenditures in the unrestricted plant funds were at 63 percent of the budget total, but according to Ellison, there will be a focus on facility projects in the coming year to utilize those funds.

Regarding the restricted fund, the college received 70 percent of the total anticipated revenues with expenditures coming in at 66 percent. Ellison also noted that salaries coming out of this fund were at 115 percent. “This is fairly normal within this particular budget, largely because we don’t break out the grants to the same detail that we do in the general fund,” she explained. The grant budgets are in another category and are used when matches are required for some of the grants so those will balance out the expenditures.

In the auxiliary budget, Ellison reported that the college continues to see a decline in revenues. “We will be looking at the bookstore revenues, which is the primary amount noted (in the budget). But we also have corporate learning in here, which from year to year is hard to predict,” she noted.

“We are in line with our budget, just not the specific line items.”

Ellison finished her presentation by stating that total cash flows are at $4.5 million, compared to $3.9 million last year. “We have been able to manage our budget and stay within those lines,” she said.

She noted that primary property tax receipts are “staying true to historical trends.”