The extra money and when it's free

Hmmm...here's a puzzler.

That $2.4 million has three priorities:

1. Fuel
2. Class size
3. Supplies

According to the school administration, this money will not be released until the gas prices are locked in.

That will happen sometime between now and November. It's based on the NYMEX market rate.
School, of course, starts in August.

This would seem to mean that they can't spend the money until, possibly, after school starts. That would make applications to class size tricky.