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Oversight panel reviews $3.47 million in sales-tax revenue and updates on school safety, playgrounds and track work
Summary
The Hennepin County Schools independent sales-tax oversight committee received a fiscal 2024 revenue update showing roughly $3.47 million in collections, heard progress reports on security cameras and facility projects across several schools, and noted a $704,000 encumbrance for school-awarded projects.
Jason Adams, chief financial officer for Hennepin County Schools, told the independent sales-tax oversight committee that the district’s surtax-funded plan produced increased collections and near-complete fund utilization for the year. "This is the full, fiscal '24 revenue update," Adams said, adding that "we collected 3,317,000" in 2023–24 and that collections rose "to 3,471,155 and 42¢" in 2024–25 (year-to-date).
The update tied the revenues to specific uses set out in the adopted resolution, which lists renovation, replacement, construction, security and technology among eligible expenditures. Adams said the five-year plan extends to 2030 and pointed committee members to Exhibit A for the surtax capital plan and project lists.
Committee members and staff reviewed recent projects funded by the sales tax. Miss Nye reported that "The cameras at La Belle Middle School have now been completely, installed," and said the system is awaiting network integration so cameras can come online. Nye also said additional fencing was added at Uptagrove Elementary School to meet state safety compliance and that access-control doorbells were finished at a suboffice and the outreach center.
Facilities staff described completed and ongoing construction work: replacement steel doors, a 10-ton HVAC unit at a facility, an added parking lot at Country Oaks to address staff parking shortages, and a $704,000 encumbrance for school-awarded projects that include a track remodel at Cluesen High and the Kingfield remodel. On the track work, staff said contractors milled the old asphalt, poured foundation concrete this week and expect to have asphalt in place by November before installing a rubberized surface.
Adams summarized the year-end numbers: roughly $3.471 million in total revenue, $3,282,000 in expenditures and an ending fund balance rolled over of $189,000. He described some technology and data-center upgrades as intentionally staged in case sales-tax funding needed to support new high-school construction.
The committee did not take additional action on projects during the meeting; staff noted follow-up items including network integration for camera systems and continuing construction schedules.
