The Brookhaven School District Board of Directors approved a $31 million district budget for the 2016-2017 school year at its board meeting Tuesday.

Director of Finance Linda Reeves proposed the increased budget at a special-called board meeting last week. The board passed the budget with no discussion Tuesday.

About 35.5 percent of the budget will come from local sources. Of the local sources, $10,268,507 — 33.10 percent of the total budget — is proposed to come from ad valorem taxes.

Ad valorem taxes are those taxes paid on homes, automobile tags, business fixtures and equipment, and rental real property. The school board sets the amount they need for their budget and the Brookhaven Board of Aldermen sets the millage needed to fund it.

It was previously reported the board’s request could cause a slight tax increase for residents and business owners in the district. The amount proposed at last week’s meeting was about $600,000 less had been than previously considered.

When asked after the approval of the budget whether he still anticipates a tax increase for residents, incoming BSD Superintendent Ray Carlock said nothing has changed “from what was printed the first time.”

Other local budget sources include $262,000 from school lunches, $186,886 from student activity and $296,360 from other local sources like donations.

From the state, $13,447,438 — 43.35 percent of the total budget — will come from the Mississippi Adequate Education program.

Homestead exemption accounts for $237,690 of the state revenue, vocational education accounts for $295,523 and other state revenue sources account for $424,041.

Reeves said federal funding is mostly derived from three main grants. A Title I grant — given out to schools with a high percentage of low-income families — accounts for $1,676,614. Child nutrition grants account for $1,595,485, vocational education accounts for $43,750 and other grands account for only $1,382,477.

The proposed budget also appropriates the same amount in expenditures, with 54.62 percent — $16,944,519 — going to instructional services which deal directly with teaching students. Support services account for 10,770,102, or 30.72 percent of total expenditures. Non-instructional services, which includes cafeteria operation, account for $1,845,443, 16th section land uses $228,300 and long-term debt payments account for $1,233,923. No money was appropriated for facilities construction.

Carlock said the proposed budget is similar to the one proposed last year. Carlock would not say if teachers and administrators would see a pay raise or pay cut with the budget.

In other board business:

• The board approved the first reading of the draft copies of graduation requirements and restraint and seclusion policies presented by Deputy Superintendent Roderick Henderson.

• The board approved a change order in the amount of $7,334 in regard to Brookhaven High School field house parking.

• The board approved the purchase of 429 E. Congress St. in order to expand BHS property.

• A state of emergency was declared at Alexander Junior High due to a failing air conditioner system that would render the building uninhabitable for school purposes. The district will begin obtaining competitive bids to replace the system.