There’s a good chance District 186 can erase this year’s $10 million deficit, so says superintendent Jennifer Gill.

“We budget conservatively, and we make sure that we add contingencies and lines and make sure that we don’t ever have a problem where we don’t have enough in the budget,” Gill told reporters after Monday’s board meeting. “But then every year, as we move through the year, certain line items do not get spent down all the way, and all that money combined, plus making sure we spend wisely and within our means is extremely important, and, if we can realize a 95 percent spend on that overall budget, then we will have closed that deficit gap.”

In four and a half years, the Sangamon County one percent sales tax has produced $46 million dollars … about one or two million dollars a year more than expected. That pays for school construction.