The Cullman County School Board heard the first proposal for its Fiscal Year 2020 budget during Tuesday night’s meeting.

Cullman County Schools Chief School Financial Officer Ed Roberson presented the proposed budget to the board and highlighted some of the key numbers.

He said the budget projects around $82.58 million in general fund revenues and $80.86 million in general fund expenditures for the coming year, and the system can be expected to end the year with around $11.8 million in its general fund account.

“We’re not trying to build a big balance,” he said. “We want our teachers to have what they want, we want our kids to be taught and we want y’all to have good facilities to go in. We don’t want a three month supply sitting out in the bank somewhere, we want it to be used in the school system for what y’all need.”

Roberson also noted a few of the system’s projects for the coming year, including a new home economics building at Holly Pond High School, the replacement of window air conditioners in multiple schools, installation of air conditioning units in school gyms, repaving at campuses across the county, completing the Child Development Center playground and adding additional security improvements including fencing, entry systems and camera systems.

“There’s a lot of new things and exciting things going on,” he said.

The board also recognized this school year’s first winners of its monthly e5 Exceptional Service Award: Holly Pond bus driver Matt Wood and The Hutch/Fairview Quick Stop owners Josiah and Shannon Daily.

The award is given out by the board to teachers, students, volunteers or anyone on a school campus who goes above and beyond in their day-to-day actions.

In other business, the board:

Approved a contract extension for April Hays for summer work as needed at a rate of $150 per day.

Approved a request from Cold Springs Elementary School to pay Adam McKinnon for Athletic Director/C2C, paid by local school funds on the Dec. 19 paycheck.

Approved a request from Fairview High School band boosters to pay the following for summer work: Kristy Harris- $250, Nathan Kilgo- $500.

Approved a request from Fairview High School to pay Tracy Means $400 for summer gym maintenance work, paid by FHS girls basketball and volleyball funds.

Approved a request from Holly Pond High School to pay Russell Walker $500 for summer track workouts, paid by local school funds.

Approved a request from Vinemont Middle School to pay Kerry Thompson $1,200 for refinishing classroom and hallway floors during summer 2019, paid by local school funds.

Approved 2019-2020 Afterschool Programs and personnel (personnel paid by local school funds).

Approved 2019-2020 non-faculty coaches.

Approved a request to allow the following assistant principals to be an athletic coach during the 2019-2020 school year and receive the supplement, George Redding, Brent Barnett.

Approved the 2019-2020 academic and athletic coaching supplements and assignments.

Approved the following out-of-state field trip requests:

West Point High School livestock judging team, traveling to Lawrenceville, Georgia on Sept. 16 for the Gwinnett County Fair Livestock Judging Contest.

West Point High School FCCLA, traveling to Washington D.C. from Sept. 29 through Oct. 4 for Capitol Leadership Training.

Hanceville High School FCCLA, traveling to Little Rock, Arkansas on March 28 to tour Little Rock Central High School.

Approved June 2019 financial statements.

Approved June 2019 bills and salaries in the amount of $8,511,975.83.

Approved a request from the Child Nutrition Department to participate in the PACA Program.

Approved a request from the Child Nutrition Department to provide meals to Community Action of North Alabama for the 2019-2020 school year.

Approved Maintenance Department Public Works Project- CDC Playground Fence at a cost of $5,667 through Parris Fence.

Authorized the superintendent to submit applications for various programs for the 2019-2020 school year: Title I, Title II, Title III, Title IV, At-Risk and any other federal, state and grant funds that the superintendent deems necessary and possible to obtain.

Approved a request for updated salary schedule.

The Cullman County School Board will have it final FY 2020 budget hearing and regular meeting on Sept. 12, with a work session beginning at 5:30 p.m. and the meeting beginning immediately after.