Dale’s Board of Education Monday evening approved temporary appropriations for 2020-2023 and hired several persons for the next school year.
One person has submitted her retirement and two other persons are resigning.
Regarding temporary appropriations, Acting informed the board the fi gures include $5.7 million in the General Fund, $97,000 for the building fund, $356,000 for the nutrition fund and $670,000 in the bond fund.
Following a 45-minute executive session, the board voted to hire J.D. Widner as Secondary Principal. Widner has been serving as assistant secondary principal. informed the board the figures include $5.7 million in the General Fund, $97,000 for the building fund, $356,000 for the nutrition fund and $670,000 in the bond fund.
Following a 45-minute executive session, the board voted to hire J.D. Widner as Secondary Principal. Widner has been serving as assistant secondary principal. In addition to being Acting School superintendent, Wilkins has served as Secondary Principal the last two years.
The board also voted to hire Emily Battershell as an elementary teacher with the position to be determined later.
Wilkins asked the board to table an agenda item on hiring another elementary teacher.
Board members approved hiring Tonya Landreth as financial secretary. She will take the position now held by Paula Ramsey who is retiring after 31 years.
Sage Higdon was hired as a Middle School secretary.
Elementary Principal Courtney Howser has submitted her resignation as has Eric Worley, Junior High School baseball coach who also teaches health, physical education and Spanish.
Carren Cantrell-Milligan is retiring as a counselor after 24 years, she said.
The board approved summer camps for boys and girls basketball and baseball.
Board members also adopted a resolution for schools and libraries universal services (E-Rate) for 2022-2023. The resolution authorizes filing of a form for funding year 2022-2023 and the payment of the applicant’s share upon arrival of funding and receipt of the services.
Wilkins, as part of his superintendent’s report, advised board members U.S. News and World Report has rated Dale High School 21st among the 467 high schools in the state and 3,200th in the nation.
Wilkins reviewed with the board revenue TON comparisons between TON ORUM April of 2021 and April of this year.
Through April of 2021, warrants totaled $3,964,625 and through April of 2022 the figure is $4,229,844 which is $265,219 more.
Local revenue, which is money the state cannot touch, totaled $1,337,400 through last month this year. That is $192,262 more than the district had received through April of 2021 which was $1,145,138.
The building fund in April of a year ago stood at $108,732. Last month it totaled $111,674 which is up about $2,942.
The district’s cash balance in April of 2021 was $562,959. In April of this year, it totaled $1,030,593. That is an increase of $467,634 over a year ago.
State aid received through April of 2022 was $2,451,566 and that is $106,761 more than the $2,344,805 received through April of a year ago.
The County Education sales tax balance currently stands at $425,339 Wilkins said.
And the Stimulus (ARP) funds are $489,578. Wilkins added, “And we’ve started spending some of that.”