New Kent School Board adopts $38 million operating budget for FY2021-22

By Andre Jones | June 8, 2021 8:03 pm

New Kent County Public Schools adopted its FY2021-2022 budget at Monday night’s regular board meeting.

The school’s operating budget will be $38,606,920 for the upcoming school year. Of that amount, $35,651,319 is designated for the general fund, $203,768 for the textbook fund, $1,251,806 for the nutrition fund, and $1,500,027 of grant funding.

As part of the adoption in efforts to balance the budget, recommendations were made to reduce to a conservative estimate for the Average Daily Membership (ADM) in the amount of $259,576, reduce workers compensation coverage based on recent renewal from VACORP ($23,162), reduce budgeted FICA contributions ($16,553), reduce remaining expense in contingency funds ($16,726), and reduce the textbook fund ($3,135).

The school system’s Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) is pegged for $1,281,056 for the next cycle.

Among big ticket items include the purchasing of school buses ($698,700), digital conversion transfer to operating ($200,000), district-wide paving ($120,000), and replacement of the New Kent Middle School HVAC systems ($100,000).