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STATESVILLE SCHOOL SYSTEM: Mrs. Paula Gwaltney, the finance
officer for the referenced school system, advised that a budget
revision was adopted by the school board in August which requests
to appropriate some capital outlay funding that had not been
designated to date from the 1993-94 county appropriation for the
rental of mobile units in their current expense budget request.
She stated her school system had a loss of state revenues at the
beginning of the year and that when they finalized their current
expense budget they were trying to find the best uses for their
revenues. In annual capital improvements, she stated that 1.5
million in capital improvement projects had been submitted earlier
this year. They had $136,000 that was undesignated. The school
system is requesting that 118,000 be designated for the mobile
units.
Commissioner Madison asked, "What are the capital needs of the
county schools right now? Didn't we get a facilities plan that
called for $51 million worth of capital needs?"
Mrs. Gwaltney advised this was correct.
commissioner Madison said that if he understood this request
correctly, the schools wanted to spend capital funds that are
designated as capital funds right now to offset what was previously
paid for out of current expense. The schools are expending capital
funds for current expense expenditures that have been a current
expense in the past.
Mrs. Gwaltney stated they had previously designated some
money. "We had to purchase six new mobile units this year that
were new items in the budget. This was becoming a larger drain on
our current operating budget. We are in hopes that with our
facilities plan that we have presented, that we will be able to use
less and less mobile units over a period of time. This was a board
decision."
Commissioner Madison said he realized it was a board
decision. He stated that if the request was approved that the
commissioners are in effect giving an extra dollar per child to
current expenses of the Iredell-Statesville School System. "Are we
not?"
Mrs. Gwaltney stated that they received a 5% increase last
year and after the budget request was submitted they had not
accounted for the fact that the State might eliminate their low
wealth funding. They lost $127,000 that they have to replace.
commissioner Madison said that as far as the County's money
was concerned this is basically talking about the 58 plus $118,000.
Mrs. Gwaltney said the school system was still getting the
5%, but that they were redirecting within their own budget to
continue to do as many continuation items as they possibly could.
Commissioner Madison asked why couldn't the $118,000 air
condition some classrooms.
Mrs. Gwaltney stated she had talked to Dr. Nantz about this,
and his response was that the air conditioning of a facility would
be site specific. The projects have ranged from $350,000 -
$700,000 to do the remodeling/air conditioning at a site.
Certainly $118,000 would go toward an air conditioning project. It
would not pay for a total air conditioning for a facility, but it
could be applied to that.
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