Bartlett board adopts 2025-26 budget calendar and approves Resolution 12-4 budget amendment

The Bartlett City Board of Education on Jan. 23 adopted the 2025-26 Bartlett City Schools Budget Development Calendar and approved Resolution 12-4, a budget amendment, during a regular business meeting at Bartlett High School auditorium.

Bryan Woodruff moved to adopt the 2025-26 budget development calendar; Erin Berry seconded. The vote was recorded as: Erin Berry — Aye; David Cook — Aye; Shirley Jackson — Aye; Brad Ratliff — Aye; Bryan Woodruff — Aye. The motion carried unanimously. Later in the meeting Woodruff moved to pass Resolution 12-4 (a budget amendment); Brad Ratliff seconded and the board voted unanimously in favor with the same recorded ayes.

The board also accepted the December financial report, noted in the minutes as a non-voting item. The packet included detailed statements of revenue and expenditures for multiple funds. For the General Purpose Fund the transcript packet shows year-to-date revenues of $47,666,651.55 (about 44% of the line-item total reported in the packet) and year-to-date expenditures of $45,531,838.23; the Federal Projects and School Nutrition funds also had detailed YTD revenues and expenditures included in the packet. The minutes do not record any dissent to the calendar or the amendment.

Chairman David Cook called the meeting to order at 6 p.m.; the board adjourned at 6:30 p.m. The board's next procedural steps on the adopted calendar and the implementation details for Resolution 12-4 were not specified in the minutes.