Hickman County Board approves four budget amendments including opioid grant reclassifications
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The board approved budget amendments 15–18 covering reclassification of special education transportation and building-improvement lines, carryover opioid grants moved to different codes, ePlan ISM grant alignment, and Title program revisions; members were told behavioral-health opioid grant funds total $100,000 with $20,000 for health programs.
The Hickman County Board of Education approved four budget amendments (15–18) intended to align accounting codes with program needs and state submissions.
Business staff described budget amendment 15 as reclassifying funds into subcategories for special education (SPED) bus drivers and SPED bus driver attendants, moving building-improvement painting allocations into the correct line item, and adding a code to track outside donations as they are expended. Budget amendment 16 brings the district’s ISM grant submission into agreement with the entries in Tennessee’s ePlan system. Budget amendment 17 reassigns carryover opioid grant funds into behavioral health line codes the finance office prefers. Budget amendment 18 revises Title program line items to match ePlan-approved categories after changes in funding levels.
On the opioid grants discussed under amendment 17, staff said the district received carryover awards last January and plans to request extensions because not all funds will be expended by the current deadline. The transcript records the district referenced $100,000 on the behavioral-health side and $20,000 on the health side; staff said future grant amounts are expected to be smaller but did not provide specific upcoming award totals.
Board members approved the four amendments by voice vote and recorded a roll-call approval with a 7-0 tally on the motion to adopt the packet of budget amendments.
The amendments were presented as bookkeeping and compliance steps to align local accounting with state grant submissions and to ensure donations and carryover funds are tracked in correct subcodes. The board did not discuss shifting major program funding or eliminating programs as part of these amendments.