The vacated Redoubt Elementary facility would house Soldotna Montessori Charter School and River City Academy.
This year, the district closed Nikolaevsk School and very nearly closed Sterling Elementary School.
The missing funds could have led to further cuts to programming and staff on top of deep cuts made by the KPBSD Board of Education this year.
The two awards are based on comprehensive reviews of the district’s budget and financial reporting.
Multiple members of the board said they were frustrated by the state’s failure to fund education.
The new budget designed by the committee will be considered at a public hearing during the full board meeting on Monday evening.
It could be closed next year.
School pools have repeatedly been raised as a possible option for closure and then saved at the last minute.
The district issued “notices of non-retention” to all its pool managers, library aides and theater technicians.
Per-student funding was increased by $700 in an education bill passed by the Alaska Legislature in May.
Those notices were issued due to the ongoing uncertainty in state education funding.
The school serves a primarily Russian Old Believer community located about 19 miles outside of Homer.
The district is waiting both to see how the governor will exercise his veto rights and for the borough to finalize its contribution.
