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School employees get 3 percent 'stipend'
Avoids ongoing expense, but BOE continues to spend reserve
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All Bulloch County Schools employees, from teachers and principals to cooks and bus drivers, will get a 3 percent, one-time bonus next school year. It's the Board of Education's solution to how to use most of a $1.7 million increase in state funding without committing the school system to a continuing raise. The bonus, which school system Chief Financial Officer Troy Brown and Superintendent Charles Wilson called a "stipend," was approved unanimously during Thursday's board meeting.
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