Estill County Board approves FY26 working budget, multiple MOAs and senior trip; adopts electronic requisition controls

The Estill County Board of Education on Sept. 18 approved the district's FY26 working budget, authorized several memoranda of agreement for student services, approved a senior-class overnight trip, and requested capital fund reimbursements, board members said at the meeting in the Estill County Board of Education boardroom in Irvin.

Superintendent Brock opened discussion of the budget and turned the presentation to Mr. Yost, who reviewed how the district will use Munis electronic requisitions and roll-up codes to track spending by department and by fund. "We've got principals, finance secretaries, department heads. They're trained," Yost said, describing monthly monitoring meetings with principals and department directors and saying the system will update users when a purchase would put them over budget.

The board voted to approve the FY26 working budget after the presentation. Board members and staff described the budget as a working document that can be amended during the year if revenues change or if the district receives additional SEEK (state) funds. Yost noted the budget document shows the district's Fund 1 (general) and Fund 2 (grants) breakdowns and that the packet distributed to board members is 47 pages long.

The board also approved multiple outside agreements. The board approved a memorandum of agreement with Baptist Health to provide mobile mental-health services at district schools; the superintendent said Baptist Health would come to…