Fund allocations on Oct. 3 school board meeting
Anderson County Board of Education members Darren Carden, Sherri Beaty and Don Bell, along with Director of Schools Tim Parrott, get ready for a work session. (photo:Ben Pounds )
The meeting will be on Thursday Oct. 3 on the top floor of the Robert Jolley building at 101 South Main Street in Clinton.
Other allocations in the group include mulch for playgrounds and teacher supplies.
The total amount of those allocations will be $749,627. They will come out of the school system’s regular budget.
However, they don’t come with many strings attached.
This fund is recurring, and schools get funding based on enrollment.
“All of those go directly out to the schools and the schools decide what to use that for,” Director of Schools Tim Parrott told The Courier News after a work session Monday, Sept. 30.
“I’m glad the board does that and allows the funds to flow out to the schools.”
He said this is the first year the school system is including physical education supplies.
At the meeting, the board will also hear from Briceville Elementary School special education teacher Rhonda Phillips regarding the school system teachers’ Professional Educators Collaborative Conferencing Act petition. It allows employees to negotiate requests involving things like benefits and pay with the Anderson County Schools.
The board will also vote on whether to appropriate or transfer funds to preschool.
Policies up for second reading involve the school system’s emergency preparedness plan, student transportation management, student admissions and student health services.
The board will also vote on the student calendar.