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Monroe County Board approves budget amendments, calendar and federal consolidated application
Summary
At the board meeting the Monroe County Board of Education approved June 2025 budget amendments, the May 8 minutes, the 2025–26 meeting calendar and submitted the consolidated IDEA/ESEA application; food-service and summer programming updates were also reported.
The Monroe County Board of Education approved a set of routine items, including year-end budget adjustments, the minutes from its May 8 regular meeting, the 2025–26 meeting calendar and the district’s consolidated IDEA/ESEA application for 2025–26.
Board members approved June 2025 budget amendments described by finance staff as largely year-end “clean up” moves: shifting funds to cover overages, ensuring maintenance-of-effort requirements and budgeting summer-camp grant funds. Board members asked staff to report back with final transportation spending once end-of-year bills are processed.
The board approved the 2025–26 meeting calendar, which schedules regular meetings for the second Thursday of each month with a May exception to the first Thursday for graduation timing.
The board also approved the consolidated application for IDEA and ESEA 2025–26. Leanne Strickland, identified in the meeting as a project director, told the board staff had prepared the application assuming funding at levels similar to the previous year while noting uncertainty on the ESEA (Title I) allocations. Strickland said some federal funding appeared likely but that official notices had not been received; the district prepared a fully funded application in case the funds are confirmed.
During the director’s report the district reported ending enrollment of 4,830 students (down 128 from the start of the year). Administrators said summer feeding distribution served 3,776 families for a week’s worth of breakfasts and lunches (totaling roughly 26,432 breakfasts and 26,423 lunches distributed so far), and summer-camp programming required under the Tennessee Literacy Success Act is underway.
Other items mentioned for future consideration included a draft policy to allow payment of accrued leave to the estate of a teacher who dies while employed; the board asked the policy committee to review that proposal. The meeting concluded with a routine motion to adjourn.
