HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93010_1028Statesville Inside 16.73%
Statesville Outside 20.92%
Chambersburg 20.86%
Fallstown 33.39%
Barringer 30.11%
Davidson 24.98%
Coddle Creek 22.21%
Deaton said many taxpayers requested that their property values be increased.
IREDELL-STATESVILLE U -S) SCHOOL SYSTEM'S 2003-2004
BUDGET UPDATE: I -S Board of Education Chairman David Cash, 1-S
Superintendent Terry Holliday, 1-S Finance Officer Terry Haas, and Dr. Julia Williams
(1-S Facilitator for the Facilities Task Force) attended the meeting to discuss school
r' needs.
Dr. Holliday requested in current expense that the funding level be restored to
five percent, plus growth, over the FY 02-03 appropriation. In facility needs, he
encouraged the commissioners to proceed with the Certificates of Participation issuance
($24 million) for the following three projects:
Renovations/additions at Harmony Elementary
Renovations/additions at Scotts Elementary
New K-5 school in the Brawley School Road area
Also, he said the Facilities Task Force would soon reconvene, and he
encouraged the commissioners to fund any additional projects identified by this group.
Holliday said the system would experience a 20 to 30% increase in
hospitalization costs during the coming year, along with retirement increases.
Dr. Cash said the system was trying to increase the teacher supplement. He said
a four-year plan was being used to raise it to eight percent. (It is currently at six and a
quarter percent.)
Dr. Williams said the task force findings would be available by June of this year.
She said a new school for the southern sector was presently being designed. Williams
said the core design would be for 800 students; however, the bids would specify 600
with an alternate for 200 more.
MOORESVILLE GRADED SCHOOL SYSTEM'S 2003-2004 BUDGET
UPDATE: Mooresville Board of Education Chairman Frank Fields, Superintendent
Bruce Boyles, Assistant Superintendent Barry Shepherd, and Finance Officer David
Dutton attended the meeting on behalf of the Mooresville schools.
Dr. Boyles said the Woods School project would be finished once a sidewalk
had been completed. He also said:
• the dropout rate was down two percent
• last year all of the schools in the system met expected growth predictions
• 80% of the schools were classified as "schools of distinction"
• the teacher turnover rate was declining
• the ten-year building program remained the same
• redistricting would probably occur in the future due to overcrowding
• increases in hospitalization and retirement costs were expected next year
• sufficient teacher supplements would be necessary for the "No Child Left
Behind" mandate
• the system had contributed renovation funds to the Iredell-Statesville Bus
Garage project (shared facility between the two systems)