Henry County school district budget process delayed

The Henry County Board of Education’s 2020-2021 budget will not be ready for approval before the next fiscal year begins July 1, so the district’s finance department will present to the board in June a spending resolution covering only the month of July.

District chief financial officer Christy Willis told the board at its May 11 study session that this is because the state legislature will not reconvene until June 11, having been in recess for three months, and the district does not have the state’s final dollar figures, which typically make up about 60 percent of the budget.

The law allows a resolution giving the superintendent the authority to spend money without a budget, but only for one month at a time.

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