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 $
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ELIZABETHTON â Jean-Claude Eric Hardin, 42, a former teacher with the Carter County School System, entered guilty pleas in Criminal Court last week on charges of theft and forgery on incidents involving funds from Unaka High Schoolâs meat processing program, where customers brought livestock to the school to be slaughtered by students. The customers paid a fee for this service.
When cash shortages in the program were discovered by school officials, an investigation began with the Tennessee Comptrollerâs Office and the Carter County Sheriffâs Department. In July 2019, Hardin was indicted by a Carter County grand jury on one count of theft over $1,000, six counts of forgery, and one count of official misconduct.
ELIZABETHTON â One of the most ambitious summer school programs in the history of the Carter County School System is currently being worked out.
On Monday evening, the Education Committee of the Carter County Commission was briefed on the plan by Director of Schools Tracy McAbee.
McAbee said about 600 students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade have expressed interest in attending the program designed to provide additional person-to-person teaching in a year impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. McAbee said summer school plans for the high schools are also coming along.
McAbee said the summer school program for K-8 will be a month long. The daily school will be 6 hours long and will go from Mondays through Thursdays. Fridays will be reserved as field trip day. The summer school high school program will be specialized, with courses in English, math, science and history. The summer school is set to run from June 7 to July 1.