Area school districts are looking ahead to the 2016-17 school year already and as they do so, the challenges continue to mount as the state continues through yet another month with no budget and nothing imminent in sight.

For Superintendent of Maroa-Forsyth Schools, Mike Williams, the challenges of preparing for the next school year are proving challenging already. He explains they are trying to align their class schedules with teacher availabilities, which has enough challenges on its own.

Another challenge in the whole process is the state budget being a big question. Williams indicates because they don't have any figures at all at this point, it makes staffing decisions very difficult, and those are going to have to be made very soon.

Williams predicts if a budget for the current fiscal year isn't put together and a budget for the upcoming fiscal year isn't figured out soon, schools are going to have to do a lot of short term borrowing to get by.