Members of the Joseph City Unified School District Governing Board adopted a budget totaling $6,145,840 for fiscal year 2016-17 at their July 12 meeting.
That total includes $3,948,410 as the maintenance and operations general budget limit, $343,451 as the classroom site fund budget limit, $190,282 as the capital outlay unrestricted budget limit and $1,663,697 in estimated expenditures for all other funds.
The district’s tax rates are expected to remain much the same as in fiscal year 2016, at an estimated $2.2135 per $100 in assessed valuation as the primary tax rate and 58.92 cents per $100 as the secondary tax rate, with an increase of 4.6 tenths of a cent per $100 to the adjacent ways levy, which is part of the secondary tax rate.
As part of his report to the board, Superintendent Bryan Fields noted that Summit Healthcare personnel would be on campus from 8 a.m. to noon on Friday, July 29, to offer sports physicals to the district’s student-athletes at a discounted price. Proceeds from the physicals will be returned to the district.
In addition, he noted that Joseph City High School football practice will start on Monday, Aug. 1; JCHS volleyball practice, Monday, Aug. 8; and Joseph City Junior High School football and softball practices, Monday, Aug. 15.
In other action, the board:
* Appointed Joseph Burt as an auditorium worker; Lindsey Taylor, fulltime kindergarten instructional aide; Melanie Parra, second grade teacher; Janet Bushman, part-time high school math teacher; Deo Diaz, substitute bus driver and maintenance worker; Leesa Kinghorn, junior high/high school instructional aide; and Andrew Foree, district music teacher.
* Renewed a classified staff work agreement with Esther Patterson as an at-will bus driver.
* Approved extra duty positions and stipends, including class and club sponsors for the 2016-17 school year; Daniel Hutchens as Special Education director; Frances Monzingo, Career and Technical Education director; Selena Nells, Indian Education coordinator; Darrel Mosier, auditorium coordinator; and Daniel Hutchens, elementary music.
* Approved the district policy on classroom limits, which potentially impacts the number of out-of-district students admitted to Joseph City schools, depending on their grade level.
* Approved the agricultural curriculum and adopted the textbook.
* Approved the Character Counts course curriculum and adopted the necessary resources.
* Accepted a Washington Redskins/Original Americans Foundation helmet donation.
* Approved cell phone reimbursement stipends.
* Approved vehicle use reimbursement to Brad Neal.
* Approved the consent agenda, including payment of payroll vouchers totaling $149,796.45 and $45,990.72, auxiliary vouchers totaling $3,494.03, revolving fund vouchers totaling $868.51, student activity vouchers totaling $758.67, and general fund vouchers totaling $88,446.58, $19,485.87 and $61,345.95; general fund, auxiliary and student activity financial summaries; a memorandum of agreement with Northland Pioneer College to provide satellite courses; extracurricular and student activity fee schedules; appointment of a student activities treasurer; authorization to operate revolving funds; a resolution to approve voucher ratification; and authorization of bank account and purchase order signers.
* Approved the minutes of the June 21 board meeting.
The next regular meeting of the board is scheduled at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 2, in the board room at 8176 N. Westover St.
