Budget For New Fiscal Year Approved By Mountain Brook BOE

MOUNTAIN BROOK, AL - As the current fiscal year comes to a close for the Mountain Brook school system, the school board approved its 2019 fiscal year budgets this week. The estimated the ending fund balance for FY19 is expected to be around $14.5 million.

A report by Village Living said the projected ending fund balance for FY18 is $14.8 million, but that does not reflect other grants and funding the school system has recently received or will receive in the upcoming weeks and some projects that were budgeted for the year but won’t be done until this fall.

Approximately $500,000 is also budgeted in the capital projects funds for work within the facilities as well as the 2.5 percent state-mandated raises as well as the increases for the step raises for those who are eligible. Personnel costs represent 83 percent of the general fund. (For more updates on this story and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Patch morning newsletter.)

Work on facilities over the summer included:

• New flooring in Spartan Arena
• New Ranger Park playground at Brookwood Forest Elementary, funded by the PTO
• Additional security measures at all schools, including a buzz-in system and video surveillance, as well as security gates at the high school
• New playground and field use signs for schools
• Renovated kitchen and sensory room at Mountain Brook Junior High for the special education suite
• Color-coded corridors at MBJH, funded by the PTO
• New carpet in four new classrooms at Mountain Brook Elementary
• Renovations to the cafeteria at Mountain Brook High School, funded by the PTO

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