Cartersville School Board Sets 2018 Millage Rate

CARTERSVILLE, GA — The Cartersville City School Board on Monday voted to approve its millage rate for 2018. Board members approved the Finance Committee's recommendation to set its millage rate at 15.668, which is the rollback rate calculated for the system.

The change is contingent upon the school system not seeing a significant change to the preliminary 2018 tax digest of $953.8 million. When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires that a rollback millage rate must be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year's digest that last year's millage rate would have produced had no reassessments occurred.

School board members also approved the band instrument bid for Cartersville Middle and Cartersville High schools from Maryland-based Washington Music Center ($1,140 for Cartersville Middle and $6,590.20 for High School) and Music & Arts of Frederick, Maryland ($9,054 for Cartersville Middle), low bid as specified per line item.

Under consent items, the Board approved Superintendent Dr. Marc Feuerbach attending the GSSA New
Superintendent Orientation in Macon Aug. 27-28; approved an overnight/out-of-state trip for the Cartersville Middle School Band to perform at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., March 21-24, 2019. School Nutrition bid extensions for the 2018-2019 school year were approved, as were several surplus items.

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The Board approved the Finance Committee’s recommendation to approve the FY19 Certified Salary
Schedule, voted to accept the resignation of Cartersville Middle School teacher Cheri Edwards and approved the certified employment of the following:

• Lloyd B. Taylor, teacher, Cartersville Middle School, effective 2018-2019 school year
• Elizabeth Norwood, teacher, Cartersville Elementary School, effective 2018-2019 school year
• Dawn M. Erickson, teacher, Kids & Co. Pre-K, effective 2018-2019 school year

The Board approved the classified employment of the following:

• Sarah Jefferson, nutrition, effective 2018-2019 school year
• Nickie Mathis, nutrition, effective 2018-2019 school year
• Amber Thompson, nutrition, effective 2018-2019 school year
• Crystal Price, technology clerk, effective July 23, 2018

The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Cartersville School Board is Monday, Aug. 13.

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