School District banks on increased value of a tax mill

The finance director for Oconee public schools gave the county trustees revised budget numbers as they approached a final vote last night on a budget which projects 2016-17 spending at nearly $93.5 million dollars.  Gloria Moore told last night’s meeting that a variety of factors will lower the projected budget deficit to approximately $1 million dollars.  But Moore holds out the possibility that an increased value of a county tax mill will be enough to wipe out the entire deficit.  Yet trustees were cautioned nothing definitive will be known until the county auditor receives the state’s calculations on what Oconee’s largest taxpayer, Duke Energy, will owe for 2016.