The Lincoln County School Board contemplated where to find money for its declining repair and renovation fund at Monday’s board meeting.

Lincoln County School District business manager Cheryl Shelby warned the board of the fund’s status during the presentation of March’s financial report.

“I do want to point out that our repair and renovation fund is steadily declining,” Shelby. “It wouldn’t take too many big roof repairs, and you’re not going to have money in that fund. As the year winds up, we can look at if y’all want to move some money into that fund.”

Shelby said the repair and renovation fund, which allows for academic building repairs and new technology, started at $625,000 this year and estimates it to contain $425,000 by the beginning of next school year.

“We’ve got some things that we want to do — we’ve already talked about buses and we talked about cameras,” Shelby said. “That amount is not going to be sufficient to pay for those and some big repairs at the school.”

The board discussed moving money from the construction fund, but Shelby advised against it, stating that construction on one academic building can wipe out the entire fund.

“We always have shared interest money from 16th Section land,” Shelby said. “We typically try to use that money for a one time purchase, so buses fits the bill. Although we buy them every year, it’s not like we have to. It’s not a recurring expenditure. You’ll also have some 16th Section interest money from timber sales that we’ll look at that could be moved into the repair and renovation fund.”

The board approved the financial report and agreed to spend more time at the next meeting analyzing the budget to determine where money needs to be transferred from to create a sufficient repair and renovation fund.

District 5 county barn

At the last school board meeting, District 5 Supervisor Doug Falvey requested the board and District 5 develop a written agreement that allows the county barn to be on Loyd Star school property.

Falvey said at the time of the meeting, an agreement could not be found that allowed District 5 to be on the school’s land.

Lincoln County 16th Section land manager Stan Long presented to the board at Monday’s meeting a discussion of agreement between the Board of Supervisors and the Lincoln County School District that was approved in February 1999.

Falvey requested the agreement because he would like to add on to the facility and add a fence around the perimeter.

“The agreement that was found, according to Ryan (Holmes, county engineer) and Doug, does not cover all of their needs,” Long said. “They want to bring another layout and contract to the board for approval at the next meeting.”

“The changes are probably not going to involve over a half acre more,” Long said. “Doug wants to move one fence back, extend one to the east. He wants to enclose all of the permanent stuff in fencing. He also needs some storage room.”

The board agreed to discuss the new contract with Falvey and Holmes at the next board meeting.

In other board business:

•The board approved an amendment to move money from the salaries budget to the contractual services budget for year 2015 IDEA, the special education budget.

•The board tabled the proposal from Dungan Engineering regarding a district-wide facility master plan until Holmes could present a proposal at the next board meeting.

•The board opened and approved bids for its 16th Section land.