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Sales‑tax oversight committee reports technology and safety spending, flags charter reporting limits
Summary
The Flagler County half‑cent sales tax oversight committee presented its first annual report, outlining major technology and safety investments, a multi‑million dollar fund balance, and limited visibility into charter school use of allocated funds.
The Flagler County half‑cent sales tax oversight committee presented its first annual report to the school board on Dec. 17, summarizing how referendum proceeds approved by voters in November 2022 have been used and how the committee plans to monitor future spending.
Conlin Banco, chair of the oversight committee and president of the Flagler County Education Foundation, told the board the committee reviewed five years of revenue and fund balances and sought to verify alignment with the referendum’s ballot language. "We took a look at starting a fund balance of $11,000,000," Banco said, adding that COVID‑era ESSER dollars, the timing of prior tax cycles and conservative spending…
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