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County staff: $7.1M set aside for school capital; commissioners press for clarity on needs-based grant match
Summary
Presenters told commissioners that roughly $7.1 million sits in school-capital buckets (about $3.0M county set‑aside plus ~$4.0M in lottery funds) and acknowledged confusion around a DPI needs-based grant application that included a $990,000 local-match line; staff will review DPI records and report back.
Caswell County finance and planning staff told commissioners the county currently holds multiple sources of funds that can be used for school capital, and they sketched the process for appropriating and drawing down those dollars.
Staff said accumulated school-capital resources total about $7.1 million: roughly $3.0 million in county sales‑tax set‑asides and an estimated $4.0 million in unspent DPI lottery repair and renovation allocations. ‘‘You have $4,000,000 in lottery and $3,000,000 sitting here…
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