AC School Board to vote on budget Thursday night
The Anderson County Board of Education will be voting this Thursday (April 11) on a budget that will give all school employees at least a 4% pay raise.
The meeting will be at 6 p.m. on the fifth floor of the Robert Jolley Building, 101 South Main St.
This budget will also need to pass the Anderson County Commission before going forward. The total requested budget is $78,035,593 for all funds.
Anderson County Director of Schools Tim Parrott said the school system cut more than $2.9 million from various places in the budget. He also said these cuts covered the cost of the pay raise but not all other costs.
In an interview, he said the proposed budget focused on cuts for schools whose number of students has gone down.
The projected deficit will be $9,380, but Parrott said none of it was recurring costs and it was less than last year’s. He also said this budget calculation assumes that revenues from local property taxes will remain the same.
Parrott said the pay raise was to get the school system in line with state standards. He pointed out state law requires the school system to have at least $50,000 teacher base pay by 2027.