Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will present their 2016-2017 budgets to the Orange County Board of Commissioners in a meeting Tuesday night.
The presentation will be the next formal step for CHCCS, in its attempt to get approval for an additional $4.5 million to its budget for the next school year.
The county commissioners make the final decision on the budgets for the school districts in the county.
The additional money in the CHCCS budget will go towards increasing teacher pay.
In North Carolina, teachers are given a base salary mandated by the state, but individual school districts provide a supplement to that salary.
CHCCS has already approved increase its supplement for new teachers from 12 percent to 16 percent, meaning that no matter what the county commissioners decide, the school system will still have to pay the additional $4.5 million.
Members of the Board of Education said that although the move is risky, it was done to make CHCCS more competitive for recruiting and retaining top teachers.
Wake County increase its teacher supplement to 16 percent last year, which is what prompted CHCCS to change its policy.
Board members said they needed to formally make the change before getting approval from the commissioners because this time of year is recruiting season for new teachers and they wanted to make sure they made their best offers to potential candidates.
The meeting will start at 7:00 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Building.
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