Martin County District Funds

Martin County District Funds

Each commissioner has District Funds which are the funds that are raised in their districts through millage and approved by the board when the budget is passed. Here is a table prepared by the County Administrator that outlines the funds in 2021: District Millage Rate...
ESSER II Federal Funding

ESSER II Federal Funding

School Board Member Christia Li Roberts in response to our request wrote the following explaining the latest round of funding from the federal government known as ESSER II. It is quite complicated but very important since it will go to offset specific funding that is...

School Board Salaries

We posed the question to our readers as to whether school board members should be compensated. Without exception, the responses we received believe that school board members should be compensated at best with a small stipend. This is in keeping with most of the rest...

Should School Board Members be paid for their public service?

  That is a question being asked in Tallahassee during this legislative session. A bill has been introduced in the House to have a constitutional amendment to ban school board salaries. Currently, school board members’ salaries across the state are set by the...

Capital Improvement Plan

The county administrator invited the MCTA to sit in on the CIP (Capital Improvement Plan) discussions to create a list for the next budget year. We attended approximately 50% of the departmental meetings with senior management held over the course of two weeks. At...