The Cobb Board of Education is scheduled to adopt a fiscal year 2023 budget of $1.4 billion at its monthly voting session Thursday night.
The budget proposal includes what Superintendent Chris Ragsdale said is a record salary increase for for full-time, non-temporary employees, ranging from between 8.5 percent and 13.1 percent.
A public hearing on the budget took place last month, and the board adopted a tentative budget.
Another public hearing is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, followed by the voting session at 7 p.m.
The board will hold a work session starting at 2 p.m., followed by an executive session.
Agendas for the board work session and business meeting can be found here. The meetings also will be live-streamed on the district’s BoxCast channel and on CobbEdTV, Comcast Channel 24.
Public comment periods will take place at the start of each meeting; speakers must sign up in advance by clicking here.
The Cobb tax assessor is projecting that the county’s tax digest will grow by more than 10 percent in 2022.
Roughly half of the Cobb school district’s budget comes from local property taxes, and the state provides most of the rest through the Quality Basic Education Act.
The budget documents have been posted on the district’s website at this link. The 2022-23 budget takes effect on July 1.
The board also will be asked to approve the hiring of an architect to make renovations at Wheeler High School.
The work will include conversion of traditional classrooms for STEM instruction, and upgrades at the Wheeler STEM magnet building.
The district is recommending the Atlanta firm of Gardner Spencer Smith Tench & Jarbeau at a cost of $309,116, which is 5 percent of the construction contract.
That item will be presented at the work session and scheduled for a vote in the evening.
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