The Manatee County School Board will get a look at a $367 million preliminary budget for the 2014-15 fiscal year Tuesday.
According to the Bradenton Herald, deputy superintendent of operations Don Hall will present a preliminary budget that will have an additional $19 million to spend on education next year.
The budget includes the state-mandated 3 percent minimum in the district's reserves - or $11.5 million by the end of the fiscal year - the Herald said. It must go through a few more stages before it becomes a formal "draft budget" and before it can be adopted by the board in September.
Because of the Manatee school district's past financial problems, the process of creating the budget has been hampered by state and federal audit findings requiring the district to pay back money misused in the past.
According to the Herald, the proposed budget includes additional staff reductions -- either through layoffs or by attrition -- increases in operational, instructional and superintendent's office salaries and increases in benefits and general fund expenses.