The Cobb Board of Education and the public will get a first look the Cobb County School District’s proposed fiscal year 2026 budget on Thursday.
The presentation will take place at an afternoon work session, to be followed by a public forum on the budget and a second presentation Thursday evening.
According to an agenda item, the proposed budget is $1.86 billion, a slight increase from the current district FY 2025 budget of $1.8 billion.
The agenda item contained no further details and did not indicate whether there would be a change in the property tax millage rate; the district has said that information would be posted after the budget proposal is introduced.
The budget presentation takes place at a work session that starts at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.
The budget public forum starts at 6:30 p.m., and the board’s monthly voting meeting, which includes tentative budget adoption, starts at 7 p.m.
All meetings Thursday take place in the board room of the CCSD Central Office, at 514 Glover St. in Marietta. An executive session will follow the work session.
You can read through the agenda details for the meetings at this link; and you can watch the public meetings on a livestream on the district’s Boxcast Channel.
The budget proposal anticipates $1.81 million in revenues but does not indicate how the difference would be made up.
The final budget hearing is scheduled for May 15, also at 6:30 p.m., shortly before the board is scheduled to adopt the budget.
In July, the school board adopts a property tax millage rate after the final Cobb tax digest is issued.
The Cobb school district’s fiscal year runs from July 1-June 30 of each year.
Also on Thursday’s agenda, the board will be asked to set a maximum price of $15.9 million for the construction of a second career academy on the campus of Allatoona High School.
The board will be asked to ratify a $439,497 purchase of a new video scoreboard at the Walton High School athletic stadium. The funding was raised privately by parents but it must be confirmed by the board.
The also board will be asked to spend $1.7 million to purchase 10 48-seat school buses, and another $450,000 for the acquisition of two K-9 dogs to assist with school security measures.
At the Thursday evening meeting, recognitions include Wheeler High School’s boys state basketball championship team as well as Susan Sharrow of Pope High School, the Cobb school district’s 2024-25 library media specialist of the year.
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