Board approves Fiscal Year 2026 Budget

On Monday, June 30, the Bulloch County Board of Education, during a continuation of its June 26 work session, the Board approved its Fiscal Year 2026 Budget with a vote of 6 to 0. Board members Lannie Lanier and Maurice Hill were not present for the vote. 

View the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget

The overall budget includes five funds: General Fund, Capital Projects Fund, Special Revenue Fund, School Nutrition Fund, and Debt Service Fund. Combined they include total revenues of $188,802,758 and total expenditures of $186,602,729. The General Fund, the district's primary operating fund, is budgeted to have total revenues of $147,104,239, with 58.8% coming from state revenues, 38.9% from local taxes, and 2.3% from other local sources. The General Fund's total expenditures are budgeted to be $159,695,734, with 87.1% allotted for employee salaries and benefits and 12.5% for department budgets. The Board plans to utilize the district's available reserve funds to balance the General Fund Budget's $12,591,495 difference in expenses over revenues.

Bulloch County Schools 2026 fiscal year began on July 1. The Board of Education worked with the superintendent and district leadership to adopt an operating budget by June 30. The Bulloch County Board of Education's financial statements of the governmental activities and each major fund of the school district are independently audited annually by the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts. The most recent report for the year ended June 30, 2024, was released on March 18, 2025, with no financial or federal findings reported, and the school district was one of only 25 district's in the state to receive the Georgia Department of Audits & Accounts' Award of Distinction forEcellence in Financial Reporting for Fiscal Year 2024 audits, an award the school district has received multiple times over the past 20 years. The school district's budgets and audit reports are available online.

The Board discussed its Fiscal Year 2026 budget during six scheduled regular and work sessions between March 27 and June 12. All meetings were open to the public and were open to public comments.