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Sumner County committee agrees to give schools early conservative revenue estimate, update in March
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The Budget Committee directed staff to prepare an early, conservative revenue estimate for school funding to be approved in February and updated in March to avoid last year's confusion over revenue capture and school budget timing.
The Sumner County Budget Committee directed staff to prepare a conservative county revenue estimate for the school system to approve in February and then update that estimate in March, after committee members said last year's guidance left schools unclear about what revenue to expect.
The step followed a prolonged discussion about statutory deadlines and past disagreements between the county and the Sumner County Board of Education over how to treat additional sales-tax revenue captured after budget adoption. Mr. Long, speaking to the committee, reviewed the relevant timeline and said February…
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