Financial Services
About Financial Services
Vision
To excel in providing meaningful, relevant, accurate, and timely data, demonstrate integrity in relationships, and foster a strong focus on academic outcomes while providing insight to our stakeholders.
District Checkbook
Allows public access to view USD 259 vendor payments.
Monthly vendor payments are available for 2014-15 to the current School Year beginning with July 2014. Payments are listed by fund, function and then alpha by vendor name.
The information you find may cause you to ask more questions. If so, please email Susan Willis, Chief Financial Officer, at swillis@usd259.net
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Mission
Financial Services develops and maintains the District’s financial management system in alignment with District policy, while meeting all statutory requirements and accounting standards. Serving as an essential partner to all stakeholders on topics requiring economic, financial and fiduciary expertise, Financial Services manages Accounting Services and Financial Reporting, Payroll, and Budget.
Guidelines For Success
Accountability Reports
Click Accountability Reports image to link to the KSDE website for performance and financial accountability reports for each school district and each school operated by a school district.
Contact Us
Susan Willis
Chief Financial Officer
swillis@usd259.net
316-973-4529
Nancy Iverson
Controller
niverson@usd259.net
316-973-4505
Addi Lowell
Budget Director
alowell@usd259.net
316-973-4574
Financial Services Reporting Documents
- State Budget Forms
- Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports
- Monthly Finance Report
- Budget At-A-Glance
- 2024-25 Building Needs Assessment
State Budget Forms
State Budget Forms
According to Kansas Statute 72-8254, the Kansas uniform financial accounting and reporting act, each school district shall annually publish on such district's internet website a copy of form 150, the budget summary for the current school year, and actual expenditures for the immediately preceding two school years showing total dollars net of transfers and dollars per pupil.
Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports
Monthly Finance Report
Monthly Finance Report
The district's Chief Financial Officer presents a monthly summary report to the Wichita Board of Education on the status of the district's budget. This report includes operational funds for the General and Supplemental General Funds and a cash summary of All Funds. In addition, a report glossary is included to clarify terms and conditions used in preparing the report.
Monthly Finance Report
- 2024-2025 Budget Year
- 2023-2024 Budget Year
- 2022-2023 Budget Year
- 2021-2022 Budget Year
- 2020-2021 Budget Year
2024-2025 Budget Year
- July 31, 2024
- August 31, 2024
- September 30, 2024
- October 31, 2024
- November 30, 2024
- December 31, 2024
- January 31, 2025
- February 28, 2025
- March 31, 2025
- April 30, 2025
- May 31, 2025
- June 30, 2025
2023-2024 Budget Year
2022-2023 Budget Year
2021-2022 Budget Year
2020-2021 Budget Year
Budget At-A-Glance
Budget at a Glance
The Budget at a Glance includes graphs depicting the total expenditures in the budget category, supplemental general and general fund expenditures, instruction expenditures as well as enrollment figures, mill rates by fund, average salaries and KSDE website information.
For a brief period the Wichita Public Schools published two Budget at a Glance books. One version followed the specific guidelines layed out by the State of Kansas and can be found under the "State Budget Forms" web page. The second version can be found below. This document was not produced from fiscal year 2015 through fiscal year 2018.
2024-25 Building Needs Assessment
Building Needs Assessment
Each year the board of education of a school district shall conduct an assessment of the educational needs of each attendance center in the district. Information obtained from such needs‐assessment shall be used by the board when preparing the budget of the school district to ensure improvement in student academic performance. The budget of the school district shall allocate sufficient moneys in a manner reasonably calculated such that all students may achieve the goal set forth in K.S.A. 72‐3218(c), and amendments thereto. The board also shall prepare a summary of the budget for the school district. The budgets and summary shall be in the form prescribed by the director pursuant to K.S.A. 79‐2926, and amendments thereto.