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Finance update: tax revenue correction, athletic-field costs and board concern over change orders
Summary
At the Feb. 9 meeting finance staff corrected tax revenue numbers and reported $11.25 million in total athletic-field costs with a $520,000 construction change-order; trustees raised concerns about change-order approvals and said they first read about the work in a local paper.
Finance staff told the Cherokee County School Board on Feb. 9 that the packet’s revenue numbers were incomplete: the district collected $56 million in tax revenue through Jan. 31 after a $17 million January distribution, Mr. Pettit said, correcting an earlier figure of $38 million.
Mr. Pettit also summarized operating expenses (about $8.78 million through Jan. 31) and reported a net change in fund balance of roughly $3.7 million. He walked trustees through expense categories and offered to present a services/supplies breakdown if the board wanted more detail.
The meeting moved to the district’s recent athletic-field construction: Mr. Pettit gave project totals of about $11.25 million (including nearly $948,000 in architect and design fees) and said construction change orders accounted for a $520,000 increase beyond the original GMP. He said some approvals had been executed informally or by email before formal paper documentation was processed and offered to provide contingency and change-order logs for both Gaffne and Blackburg projects.
Several trustees said they learned about the change orders from a newspaper report before discussion with staff and expressed frustration that formal notification and approval processes were not clear. Staff attributed the largest change-order items to architect omissions and to owner-requested items such as laser grading, sprinkler updates and updated scoreboards; Mr. Pettit and staff committed to deliver a contingency log and to classify each change-order line as an architect omission or owner-initiated change.
Follow-up: finance staff will provide the contingency/change-order log and a line-item breakdown identifying whether each change was an architect omission or an owner-requested addition. No further formal board action was taken on the construction items at the Feb. 9 meeting.
