Gordon County Schools are facing a spending limit and re-cently passed a spending resolution for the month of Novem-ber.

“The resolution keeps the school district operating until the budget (County’s tax digest) has been set for the year,” said Gordon County Schools Superintendent Bill McCown.

It will allow the district to operate on a twelfth (the equiva-lent of one month) of last year’s budget while they wait for the county digest to be submitted.

The amount set by the spending resolution is $4,677,226, which is a twelfth of last year’s budget of $56,127,077, accord-ing to the Finance Director Gail Farriba.

W.L. Swain Elementary principal Gina Daniel shared with the board the progress of her school.

“In the last two weeks, Pepperell Elementary School and Glenwood Primary School (teachers came) to see what a stan-dard classroom looked like,” said Daniel. “They traveled from room to room and saw our anchor charts and standards posted.”

The Superintendent was pleased by Daniel’s report.

“We’re proud of all the modeling, and the relationship you have with all the other schools,” said McCown.

The board approved a storage building for Sonoraville High School. The building will stand 20 ft. high x 60 ft. wide and will house sports equipment and agricultural tools.

Fairmount Poultry will build and furnish the materials, which will include six bay windows. It will be located behind the Scout Hut building.

McCown said they would apply for a building permit this week, and then begin construction.

The next board meeting will be Dec. 14 at Ashworth Mid-dle School at 7 p.m.

Sidebar

-Ashworth Middle School, Belwood Elementary School, Fairmount Elementary School, Red Bud Elementary School, Swain Elementary School and Tolbert Elemen-tary School all earned Distinguished School distinction for Title I schools.

-The board approved a field trip to Columbus State Uni-versity for GCHS theatre thespians.

-The IDE (2) policy, which will decide if sixth graders will play football with seventh and eighth graders, was de-layed after a recommendation was approved.

-The board approved a recommendation for donating four library computers at Fairmount Elementary School.

-McCown announced the Gordon County Board of Edu-cation earned a title of Board of Distinction.