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Claiborne County approves multiple Board of Education grant and budget amendments
Summary
The commission combined and approved four Board of Education resolutions to record federal and state grant carryovers and adjustments (Title I, IDEA/ESSA, Safe Schools, School Safety grants, E-rate receipts and hybrid retirement coding) that the school system says involve no local tax dollars.
The Claiborne County Commission voted on Nov. 19, 2018 to approve a set of four Board of Education budget amendments (Resolutions 2018-075 through 2018-078) to align county accounting with state-approved grant budgets and to record additional grant revenues.
Resolutions combined by motion included: • 2018-075 — Federal Projects Budget adjustments to match state grant budgets and carryover amounts for Title I, IDEA and other federal programs (lists multiple revenue and expenditure line-item changes; sponsor: Shawn Peters). • 2018-076 — Recording of a Safe Schools Grant ($50,380) and a School Safety Grant ($125,950), increasing 'Other State Grants' revenue by $176,329.16 and allocating funds to travel, supplies, staff development and equipment. • 2018-077 — Entry of E-rate receipts totaling $24,342.97 from CenturyLink, Birch Communications and AT&T into miscellaneous refunds and related equipment spending. • 2018-078 — Addition of hybrid retirement object codes across multiple salary accounts to comply with Tennessee Department of Education requirements.
Board of Education sponsor and finance staff (Director of Schools Shawn Peters and School Finance Director Angelia Tucker) were listed in the resolutions and the minutes record that these amendments involve no state or local tax dollars. The combined motion to approve the four resolutions carried by aye vote.
Next procedural steps noted in the minutes are ministerial recording of the amended budgets; the minutes do not list additional county-level funding obligations resulting from these entries.
