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Cherokee County School Board previews FY27 budget, weighing 2–3% raises against millage options
Summary
At an April 20 budget workshop, district finance staff presented FY27 baseline numbers showing salaries consume roughly 85% of the general fund and offered courses of action to fund a 2% or 3% cost‑of‑living raise, including supplementing fund balance or a hybrid millage approach.
Mister Pettit, Chief Financial Officer for the Cherokee County School District, opened the budget workshop by framing the FY27 baseline as the budget with no raises and said the district faces a choice between supplementing fund balance or levying mills to support any raise above 1%. "The budget is not yet balanced," he told the board, adding the final numbers will depend on the South Carolina House budget and the district's 45th‑day enrollment counts.
The CFO told board members salaries make up the vast majority of the spending and that the district is recommending either a 2% or 3% cost‑of‑living increase, while noting the budget would be balanced only with a 1% raise. He presented three courses of action: (1) approve a 3% raise and supplement with fund balance or levies, (2) approve a 2% raise and partially supplement, or (3) adopt a 1% raise that balances without supplemental funds. The presentation included a hybrid option that would levy roughly half the required revenue in mills and use fund balance for the rest; exact millage amounts were shown in the slides.
