Hoover Schools Budget Includes $15 Million Deficit

HOOVER, AL — Hoover City Schools Superintendent Kathy Murphy is proposing to spend $205 million in the coming fiscal year, while receiving $189 million in revenues and $830,000 from other sources, according to a budget proposal presented to the school board Thursday night.

The budget proposal includes a large number of capital projects, and revenue would not cover all of the proposed projects, Murphy said. However, Murphy wants the projects to move forward anyway.

A Hoover Sun report said the $205 million in projected expenditures includes $19 million in capital projects such as an $8 million 18-classroom expansion at Berry Middle School, which school officials hope to begin in October.

Capital projects of the FY 2020 budget include:

• $3.9 million for heating and air conditioning upgrades
• $2.5 million to replace part of the roof at Hoover High School
• $2.1 million to renovate part of the old Bluff Park Elementary School
• $800,000 for flooring projects
• $600,000 for paving projects
• $550,000 for architectural designs for a fine arts facility
• $350,000 for window replacements
• $180,000 for painting projects

The school district expects to begin fiscal 2020 with at least $103.5 million in reserves, but by the end of the year, those reserves would be down to $88.5 million.