August 10, 2021 at 4:54 p.m.
Budget total down from '21
Jay School Corporation
Budget total down from '21
The schools are planning to spend less.
Jay School Board on Monday granted business manager Shannon Current permission to advertise the 2022 budget at $35.5 million.
The proposed budget is down more than $900,000 (about 2.5%) from the current year’s budget.
Current, who is in her first year as business manager, laid out the details of the budget to the board. It includes $19.73 million in the education fund (down from $20.5 million this year), $9.54 million in the operation fund (down from $9.9 million this year), $5.3 million in the debt service fund and $893,000 in the pension debt service fund.
The bulk of the budget reductions are from continued cost savings from school consolidation, superintendent Jeremy Gulley said. Over the last five years, the corporation has shifted from seven elementary schools, two middle schools and a high school to five elementary schools and a single junior-senior high school.
“We’re spending less, which makes sense to me because we’ve made savings through efficiencies and consolidation,” Gulley said.
Current estimated that the corporation will have a positive cashflow of about half a million dollars in 2022 for a projected year-end balance of $5 million. The school corporation has made consistent gains over the last five years after having a year-end balance of less than $1.5 million at the close of the 2017 school year.
The budget also lays out the capital projects and bus replacement plans for the corporation. Roof replacements are the most costly projects in the capital improvement plan for each of the next four years, ranging between $350,000 and $500,000, with other expenditures including student Chromebooks, vehicles and parking lot work. The corporation plans to buy seven new buses in 2022, five in 2023 and four in 2024.
The proposed budget will be published in the newspaper and online this week, with a public hearing on the budget scheduled for 5 p.m. Aug. 23 at General Shanks. The board is expected to vote on adoption of the budget at its regular meeting in September.
Gulley also reported that the school corporation has received permission from Indiana Department of Education to move forward with the process of disposing of Westlawn Elementary School. The building will no longer be used by the school corporation, as students shift to the former West Jay Middle School Building that will now be known as West Jay Elementary School.
In other business, the board:
•Recognized the Jay County High School Marching Patriots and all students who had 4-H livestock and projects for their success at the Indiana State Fair.
•OK’d an updated memorandum of understanding for a school resource officer with Jay County Commissioners that runs through Oct. 1. The agreement is essentially the same as has been in place for the last two years except for an increase in the officer’s pay. The school corporation and commissioners plan to use the next two months to negotiate terms of a possible extension of the agreement.
•Approved a series of new employee hires, including Rebecca Gorrell has a high school English teacher, Lisa Wellman as a second grade teacher at East Elementary School, Abby Sutter, Courtney Bettinger and Amber Stoltz as third grade teachers at East Jay Elementary School, Olivia Cash as a high school family and consumer science teacher, Kyle Selvey and Tyler Leonhard as a special education teachers at East Jay Elementary, Katie Lyons as a high school agriculture teacher, Elizabeth Ulrey as a third grade teacher at West Jay Elementary School and Kayla Luginbill as a kindergarten teacher at East Elementary. Also hired Trisha Green as softball and girls golf coach, and hired Donald Gillespie as boys tennis coach while accepting the resignation of Scott Miller from the same position.
•Accepted the resignations of teachers Macey Ashbaugh, Veronicka Rector and Jackie Roessner.
•Heard board policies and school handbooks will need to be updated following a change in state law regarding student employment procedures.
•Approved the following: the annual financial report, which is published on page 8 in today’s newspaper; the retirements of bus driver Mike Harris and instructional assistant Kay Smith; the corporation’s teacher appreciation grant policy with no changes.
Jay School Board on Monday granted business manager Shannon Current permission to advertise the 2022 budget at $35.5 million.
The proposed budget is down more than $900,000 (about 2.5%) from the current year’s budget.
Current, who is in her first year as business manager, laid out the details of the budget to the board. It includes $19.73 million in the education fund (down from $20.5 million this year), $9.54 million in the operation fund (down from $9.9 million this year), $5.3 million in the debt service fund and $893,000 in the pension debt service fund.
The bulk of the budget reductions are from continued cost savings from school consolidation, superintendent Jeremy Gulley said. Over the last five years, the corporation has shifted from seven elementary schools, two middle schools and a high school to five elementary schools and a single junior-senior high school.
“We’re spending less, which makes sense to me because we’ve made savings through efficiencies and consolidation,” Gulley said.
Current estimated that the corporation will have a positive cashflow of about half a million dollars in 2022 for a projected year-end balance of $5 million. The school corporation has made consistent gains over the last five years after having a year-end balance of less than $1.5 million at the close of the 2017 school year.
The budget also lays out the capital projects and bus replacement plans for the corporation. Roof replacements are the most costly projects in the capital improvement plan for each of the next four years, ranging between $350,000 and $500,000, with other expenditures including student Chromebooks, vehicles and parking lot work. The corporation plans to buy seven new buses in 2022, five in 2023 and four in 2024.
The proposed budget will be published in the newspaper and online this week, with a public hearing on the budget scheduled for 5 p.m. Aug. 23 at General Shanks. The board is expected to vote on adoption of the budget at its regular meeting in September.
Gulley also reported that the school corporation has received permission from Indiana Department of Education to move forward with the process of disposing of Westlawn Elementary School. The building will no longer be used by the school corporation, as students shift to the former West Jay Middle School Building that will now be known as West Jay Elementary School.
In other business, the board:
•Recognized the Jay County High School Marching Patriots and all students who had 4-H livestock and projects for their success at the Indiana State Fair.
•OK’d an updated memorandum of understanding for a school resource officer with Jay County Commissioners that runs through Oct. 1. The agreement is essentially the same as has been in place for the last two years except for an increase in the officer’s pay. The school corporation and commissioners plan to use the next two months to negotiate terms of a possible extension of the agreement.
•Approved a series of new employee hires, including Rebecca Gorrell has a high school English teacher, Lisa Wellman as a second grade teacher at East Elementary School, Abby Sutter, Courtney Bettinger and Amber Stoltz as third grade teachers at East Jay Elementary School, Olivia Cash as a high school family and consumer science teacher, Kyle Selvey and Tyler Leonhard as a special education teachers at East Jay Elementary, Katie Lyons as a high school agriculture teacher, Elizabeth Ulrey as a third grade teacher at West Jay Elementary School and Kayla Luginbill as a kindergarten teacher at East Elementary. Also hired Trisha Green as softball and girls golf coach, and hired Donald Gillespie as boys tennis coach while accepting the resignation of Scott Miller from the same position.
•Accepted the resignations of teachers Macey Ashbaugh, Veronicka Rector and Jackie Roessner.
•Heard board policies and school handbooks will need to be updated following a change in state law regarding student employment procedures.
•Approved the following: the annual financial report, which is published on page 8 in today’s newspaper; the retirements of bus driver Mike Harris and instructional assistant Kay Smith; the corporation’s teacher appreciation grant policy with no changes.
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