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Cocke County approves multiple budget transfers, school amendments and Education Freedom Act bonuses
Summary
At its May 19 meeting the Cocke County Legislative Body approved county and school budget transfers, food-service adjustments, and a set of Education Freedom Act bonus allocations and summer-school funding as documented in the packet; most fiscal motions passed on recorded 9–0 tallies with five absences.
Cocke County commissioners on May 19 approved a package of budget transfers and amendments for county operations, the Cocke County Board of Education and the food service fund, and recorded school-specific allocations tied to state programs and bonus payments under the Education Freedom Act.
On motions presented by the Budget and Audit Committee and moved on the floor, the legislative body approved county-level transfers and amendments covering sheriff’s department payroll and equipment lines, jail contractual and custodial accounts, litter collection and animal-control adjustments, and County Clerk automation equipment purchases. The packet lists detailed General Ledger transfers and shows the motions carried (recorded as nine ayes, five absent).
School system amendments submitted by Director Manney Moore allocated funds for flood-related expenses, Save the Children/KinderBoost programming, Niswonger Project on Track summer-school funding, and multiple summer-school and transportation supplement line items. The school packet also records a large set of bonus payments and line-item reallocations under the Education Freedom Act Section IV; the minutes list specific GL-code increases and decreases across instructional, payroll and benefit accounts.
The Food Service Fund was amended to move $28,500 to a bonus line and reduce cafeteria payroll and other salary lines correspondingly.
Actions were recorded in the minutes and supporting transfer tables appended to the meeting record. Commissioners approved the transfers and amendments by motion; specific amounts and GL-account-level detail are included in the packet attached to the minutes and are part of the public record.
The approvals do not, in the minutes, identify contract award recipients or detailed timing for bonus disbursements; those items are recorded as budget-authority transfers and will be processed according to county and school finance procedures.
