With the state’s budget impasse now past the 100-day mark, Knoch School District has to contemplate what to do if it lasts much longer.

Even though Knoch School District feels it can rely on local tax revenue through the end of December, the absence of state funding poses serious questions surrounding finances. Jamie Van Lenten, Knoch’s business manager, said her district has been supported by tax revenue that’s come in recently, but questions remain beyond that.

“Typically, we receive a lot of our local revenue from local real estate taxes through December. Whenever I compare our revenue from last year to projections of this year, the local revenue is relatively the same,” Van Lanten said.

But the dropoff in state funding is obvious. Van Lenten said in the first quarter of last school

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