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School officials ask for supplemental appropriations as HVAC project, enrollment shortfall reshape budget
Summary
Assistant school superintendent James Abernathy told the Board the county’s two elementary schools need about $4.5 million in HVAC work across two fiscal years and that supplemental appropriations — including $179,800 in Emergency Connectivity Funds — raise the FY2022 school budget to $24,123,727 and trigger a required public hearing.
James Abernathy, assistant school superintendent and finance director, told the Lunenburg County Board of Supervisors on April 14 that HVAC replacements at both elementary schools will cost about $4.5 million and are expected to be funded over two fiscal years. Abernathy said preparations for installation were to begin the following week and presented two supplemental appropriation requests, including previously awarded CARES funds and newly awarded ESSER III Set-Aside Unfinished Learning Grant funding plus Emergency Connectivity Funds of…
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