Cumberland County School Board Moves Savings for Bus Garage Repair

The Cumberland County School Board proposed movement of 80 thousand dollars to the General Purpose School Fund during the last Cumberland County Commission Meeting.

Cumberland County Commission approved the resolution.

Kasey Harris is Chief Financial Officer for Cumberland County Schools.

“That was an unexpected expense we had not budgeted for and it came up and it was something we could not put off any longer. We were very grateful to have that little pot of savings in that line,” Harris said. “And then we were able to add some additional money to it. To remove it to or repair line so we could put a new roof on the bus garage.”

Harris said a large chunk of the savings came from renegotiation with Trane. Trane serves as the service provider for the School Board’s Energy Savings Initiative.

“But we actually saved about 60 thousand in our contract renegotiation with Trane. So when we dropped the monitoring and verification portion of that contract, we are not paying them sixty-something thousand dollars a year to do that,” Harris said. “We are doing that in-house now. So that is where the bulk of that amount came in.”

The School Board needed to move the savings so the board can spend it accordingly, Harris said.

“The Trane savings, I think, came out of Contracted Services because that was a contract we had with Trane. We can’t put a new roof on a building out of that line,” Harris said. “So we have to move that money into like a repair line to show at the end of the year our auditor this is actually how much money we spent on repairs.”