The Bridge City School Board adopted the tax rate and budget for the 2018-2019 school year during its meeting Monday evening. The trustees approved making no change to the tax rate of $1.17 per $100 value.
Superintendent Todd Lintzen said the budget is tight, but also balanced for the school district. The district is growing with more students. He characterized it as a fairly aggressive budget regarding the students and the instructional material. The budget for the new school year includes a six percent pay raise for all the district employees. “That was one of our goals to remain competitive with teachers and teacher pay,” Lintzen stated.
The district’s maintenance director John Scales gave the trustees an update on the new baseball and softball fields being built. Scales informed that Sports Field Solutions has started work scrapping the fields. Sports Field Solutions indicated the work should be done in 90 days including bad weather days.
Scoreboards for the two fields have been ordered, and Lintzen reflected they will be almost mirror images of each other. The scoreboard for the softball field will be in right field and the scoreboard at the baseball field will be in left field. The only differences between the scoreboards is the baseball field which is being named to honor former coach Chuck Young will have his name on the scoreboard and there will be pitch counts for home and visitors on it.
A meeting was held the last week of August between the district, the architect, the contractor, and Sports Field Solutions. The meeting was to finalize plans and responsibilities for the two fields.
-Dan Perrine, KOGT-
KOGT’s Dan Perrine accepts a Media Honor Roll Certificate of Appreciation from the school board on KOGT’s behalf. KOGT appreciates being recognized by the board for their reporting of Cardinal activities.
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