The Austin Board of Education unanimously adopted a certified levy for 2000.

Thursday, December 16, 1999

The Austin Board of Education unanimously adopted a certified levy for 2000.

The action came at Wednesday’s regular meeting of the school board members at Ellis Middle School.

The certified levy for Independent School District No. 492 is $6.72 million or the maximum allowed.

The city of Austin adopted its eighth consecutive "as-is" levy in the amount of $2.16 million for 2000 and an expenditure budget totaling $20.2 million.

The Austin school board’s action amounts to a 15.48 percent reduction. The district’s general fund expenditures budget is $28.2 million.

In other action Wednesday, the school board:

n Authorized Naomi Hatfield, Julia Espe, Royce Helmbrecht and Dr. James Hess to have athletic department petty cash account signature authority.

n Heard Jean McDermott, Ellis Middle School principal, report on the first-ever student-directed parent-teacher conferences in November. According to McDermott, a 97 percent attendance by parents was accomplished and surveys taken of the parents/guardians show a positive response to the idea.