For FY 2017, Superintendent Gronseth predicts that we will have a $3.3 million deficit. Ever since I've been on the Board, we have always had deficits, except for 2015. All the deficits are a bit surprising, and seems to be the normal way of doing business in introducing every year's budget. One would normally question such "business are usual" in planning for budgets. Though declining enrollment, the debt obligation being paid out of the General Fund (the classrooms), and depletion of the District's reserve funds certainly can have its toll.