ELIZABETHTON — Carter County continues to look for opportunities to get broadband into the remote and mountainous sections of the county where there is little or no access to the
ELIZABETHTON — The process of developing the new budget for the 2021-2022 fiscal year continued to go smoothly in Carter County. The Budget Committee of the Carter County Commission met
ELIZABETHTON â The Budget Committee of the Carter County Commission spent Tuesday night going through the budget for the Carter County School System. The proposed budget was unanimously approved by the School Board on Thursday night and forwarded to the commission. The general purpose school fund projects expenditures of $43,198,312 for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. That includes a total of $36,839,821 in salaries and $6,358,491 in operations costs.
The three other proposed budgets for the new fiscal year includes expenditures of $3,589,096 on the school cafeteria fund; expenditures of $1,246,968 in the Head Start fund; and $725,000 in the capital projects fund.
County Finance Director Brad Burke said the general purpose school fund tentatively meets the state maintenance of effort requirements for local funding of the schools. The budget also meets another state mandate of maintaining a big enough unassigned fund balance to equal 3% of the yearâs operating expenditures of $
ELIZABETHTON â Both the Carter County School Board and the Elizabethton City School Board approved their school system budgets for the 2021-2022 fiscal year on Thursday and both budgets include salary increases for teachers.
Elizabethton Director of Schools Richard VanHuss said the proposed city budget includes an increase of at least 3% for teachers, as well as funding step raise increases. In addition, he said an old salary study made about 15 years ago has finally been implemented which makes the salary schedule more sensible.
VanHuss said the current salary schedule had âno rhyme or reason for the increases in step raises.â He said the revisions will make the raises more understandable and predictable. VanHuss thanked the school systemâs business director, Beth Wilson for remembering the study and suggesting that it be implemented during a year when there was money available to put it in place. Part of the reason forthe money to beis available now, VanHuss s