Cobb school board to hold public hearing on FY 2022 budget

The Cobb Board of Education’s monthly meetings on Thursday include a required public hearing on the proposed fiscal year 2022 operating budget.

The public hearing begins at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, before the scheduled 7 p.m. voting meeting. The school board also will hold a public work session starting at 1 p.m.

All the meetings take place in the board’s meeting room at the Cobb County School District central office, 514 Glover St., Marietta.

All of the public meetings will be livestreamed on the district’s BoxCast channel and on CobbEdTV, Comcast Channel 24An executive session is scheduled between the work session and budget hearing.

You can view the agendas for the meetings by clicking here.

Public admission in the meeting room will be limited to those individuals who have signed up for public comment.

The school board will consider a proposed FY 2022 budget of $1.5 billion that includes an employee pay raise.

The budget proposal proposes holding the line on the school district’s property tax rate of 18.9 mills and using $51 million in reserve funding to reach a balance (budget summary here).

Also projected for FY 2022, which begins on July 1, is a 5.54 percent growth in the Cobb tax digest.

The school board tentatively adopted the budget in April for the purpose of advertising public hearings.

The final public hearing and formal budget adoption is scheduled for June 10.

More Cobb school district budget and financial data can be found by clicking here, including general fund and other fund overviews and line-item details, and video presentations of previous budget presentations to the school board.