The Cobb County School District is presenting a proposed fiscal year 2023 budget of $1.4 billion that will include what Superintendent Chris Ragsdale said is the biggest salary increase for employees in district history.
At a Cobb Board of Education work session Thursday afternoon, Ragsdale made the announcement, saying the raises for full-time, non-temporary employees will range from between 8.5 percent and 13.1 percent.
The proposed budget was then presented by Chief Financial Officer Brad Johnson, who said the millage rate will we staying the same—18.9 mills.
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 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 board adopted a tentative budget Thursday evening, but another public hearings will take place next month before the budget is formally adopted on May 19.
Ragsdale said the number of work days for teachers will be reduced to 187 days and salaried year-round employees will work 237 days.
Part of that is due to Juneteenth being a county and state holiday in June.
But Ragsdale said that there will “not be diminished pay to go with the diminished days.”
Ragsdale, who has been superintendent since 2015, added that this is the second time during his tenure that the district has proposed a record pay raise.
“That says a lot,” he said.
The 2022-23 budget takes effect on July 1.
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Im a lunch room monitor and Im considered temporary. There fore I don’t get raises or anything. I don’t think this is right cause when I was hired I had to go through all the protocols like everyone else. I feel like this us not right cause the lunchroom monitors are not recognized. Thank You