“’I don’t think any districts just want to sit on money. But we’ve been through a period of great uncertainty financially in this state going back to the Great Recession,’ Tallman said.

“’School board members by and large tend to be fiscally conservative people. They really do,’ he added. ‘And I think their tendency is if we’re in kind of a risky environment, that natural tendency of let’s save to be prepared because we don’t know what’s going to happen.’”

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