The Mathews County School Board, at its meeting Tuesday night at Thomas Hunter Middle School, adopted its proposed FY26 budget, a budget that calls for a 5 percent pay increase for teachers and other employees (4 percent plus one step on the salary scale), as well as the division covering hefty increases to employees’ health insurance payments.
The budget calls for an increase in county funds of slightly over $400,000, from the current contribution of $9,736,676 to $10,140,980. The overall FY26 budget is $18,167,737 with $5.8 million expected from the state and a little over $600,000 from federal funding.
The increase in the county’s share doesn’t account for a planned consolidation in school maintenance costs, with the county taking over a number of those expenditures through a Memorandum of Understanding, including such things as heating oil and utilities costs, and maintenance staff salaries and benefits. Superintendent of Schools Dr. David S. Daniel said that the net change of the ...