BOGATA – Rivercrest ISD Superintendent Tiffany Mabe and Justin Milton, the director of finance and operations, guided faculty board members down the price range highway Tuesday night time, explaining the explanations for the numbers within the proposed fiscal yr plan.
The district is proposing a tax charge of 1.596% per $100 analysis which is .12 cents decrease than final yr, however will increase about the identical amount of cash as final yr’s price range due to the upper valuations of property within the district, officers famous.
Mabe mentioned the full property valuations have been 30% increased this yr than the previous yr.
“We’re going to be OK with this (price range),” she mentioned of the proposed $8.8 million fiscal yr plan.
She mentioned she did price range a 30% enhance within the insurance coverage charges for subsequent yr as she has already been knowledgeable of the upper insurance coverage prices for subsequent yr.
“I’m on the lookout for alternate options,” she mentioned, telling the board she has despatched emails to different firms. “I’m afraid that it (the rise) goes to be throughout the board.”
The board has to go the brand new tax charge and price range by the top of August, so the board will maintain a 6 p.m. assembly Aug. 25 within the boardroom of the junior highschool.
Milton instructed the board that the district’s monitor is in want of labor.
He instructed members that to construct a brand new monitor the price could be greater than $500,000, however he had executed some analysis and located an alternate.
He mentioned the district may resurface the monitor and rise up to seven years use of that restore for round $125,000.
“If we don’t do one thing, we’re going to lose the monitor,” Mabe mentioned. “It’s overdue for one thing to be executed.”
Mabe additionally instructed the board that she and the most recent member of the college board, Invoice Dixon, will journey to Area 8 for coaching within the fall. They are going to journey to Pittsburg for the coaching classes.
The board additionally permitted the Scholar Code of Conduct handbook, the trainer appraisal calendar and different coverage renewals which can be executed every year earlier than the beginning of a brand new faculty yr.
