Board adds MOU for career‑technical center to agenda and approves related financial items
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Summary
At a March board meeting the Marion Co School Dist. board added an MOU for the regional career/technical center to the agenda, reviewed per‑seat cost calculations and approved financial items 10.1–10.5, which included the MOU language.
At its March meeting the Marion County School District board added an MOU for the regional career/technical (CTC) center to the agenda and approved financial items that included the MOU.
Superintendent (speaker 2) told the board the MOU language had been finalized and explained how costs would be allocated: the district would remove direct federal and state reimbursements from total CTC operating costs, then divide the remaining net cost by the total number of seats and bill participating districts on a per‑seat basis. "We take all of our cost associated with the center. We take out any federal funds that are received... we take any direct state reimburse that we get for salary and benefits that comes off the cost," the superintendent said. He presented estimated per‑seat ranges based on recent data and said the figure would vary with final enrollment counts.
Finance director Jessica (speaker 9) reviewed monthly claims, reconciliations and fund balances prior to the vote. The board then moved to approve financial items 10.1 through 10.5, including the CTC MOU language added earlier; the motion carried with board members answering "Yay." The motion was recorded as an affirmative vote; the transcript does not provide a roll‑call tally of individual yes/no votes.
The superintendent framed the per‑seat estimate as a range based on last year’s final figures and current budgeted assumptions: "it would look like that we took last year's final calls... that was around the $2.80 mark..." He said the per‑seat charge could fall between roughly $2.80 and $3.30 depending on final seat counts and revenue offsets.
Board members asked procedural questions about whether approval of the MOU required a separate change order or additional funding; staff said that because the MOU as presented did not increase district expenditures (it reflects cost shares after applicable reimbursements) no separate change order was necessary.
What happens next: staff said finalized counts and the formal MOU will be circulated to participating districts and brought back if substantive changes are needed. The board approved the financial package that included the MOU and the matter will proceed under staff oversight.
