The Cobb Board of Education approved 7-0 Thursday the proposed 2015-16 budget, including no tax increases, a 4 percent raise for all employees and 100 new teaching jobs because of an expected $66.6 million revenue increase.
Other budget highlights include no teacher furlough days, raises for school nurses, coaching supplements and making all elementary school bookkeepers full time.
The budget is scheduled to be available for public review on May 8.
A public hearing will be held on May 14 with the board scheduled to approve the budget during the 7 p.m. meeting on May 28.
The school district’s property tax rate is 18.9 mils with each mil worth about $20.5 million, the district’s Chief Financial Officer Brad Johnson said.
The proposed budget projects total revenue of about $1.05 billion and expenditures of around $1.07 billion.
“We’re trying to get back to where we were six or eight years ago in a deliberate way so that we don’t wind up with furlough days and layoffs,” Board Chairman and Post 1 Representative Randy Scamihorn said.
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