The Washington County Board of Education voted this week to send a revised $76.2 million school budget to the County Commission. The new budget proposal, which is for the fiscal year beginning July 1, includes a 4% pay increase for all of the systemâs employees. The background: Earlier this month, the Washington County Budget Committee asked school officials to make changes to its first version of the new budget to reflect modified state revenue projections coming from the Basic Education Program. The changes: As a result of higher-than-projected BEP revenues, Director of Schools Jerry Boyd said the school budget is now balanced by using $4.3 million from the systemâs fund balance. The first version the budget would have used more than $5 million from reserves.