EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Superintendent Dan Hoehn had bad and good news for the Excelsior Springs Board of Education in December via Zoom. The bad news: District revenue has “gotten whacked a couple times” by the state. “Withholdings” mean less state money, forcing administrators to dig into district’s reserves. “Our reserve balances were at 33.5(%),” Hoehn said, but fell to about 30% “now that we’ve been whacked a little bit.” Hoehn promised to lobby Gov. Mike Parson and Rep. Doug Richey “to pay us … our revenue that we were assigned, promised, etc.” Overall, Hoehn said he liked how district’s finances looked. “Obviously, once the calendar flips … we’ll start working on salary schedules and the budget, based on what we see for projections from the state,” he said. “But I think it’s looking pretty good at a time that I didn’t think it’d look very good.”