Martinsville Board Approves Tentative FY27 Budget for Public Display

Martinsville Board of Education | August 20, 2026

Article Summary: The Martinsville Community Unit School District #C-3 Board of Education voted 7-0 on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, to approve and display its tentative budget for fiscal year 2027. The minutes record no dollar figures, no display location and no date for a budget hearing or final adoption.

Tentative FY27 Budget Key Points:

The motion was made by board member Wilhoit and seconded by board member Hollingsworth and carried 7-0 on a recorded roll call.

No revenue, expenditure or fund-balance figures for the tentative budget appear in the minutes or on the agenda.

Four financial reports — monthly expenditures, the treasurer’s report, a budget comparison report and activity fund reports — were approved in the same meeting as part of a single consent agenda motion, also with no figures recorded.

The board’s next meeting is Sept. 24.

MARTINSVILLE — The Martinsville Community Unit School District #C-3 Board of Education on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, voted 7-0 to approve and display the district’s tentative budget for FY27, taking the first formal step in its annual budget cycle.

The motion was made by board member Wilhoit and seconded by board member Hollingsworth. Baird, President Connelly, Hollingsworth, Kannmacher, Maxwell, Parcel and Wilhoit all voted yes. The agenda framed the item as a request to “consider the approval and display of the tentative budget for FY27.”

Tentative school budgets are generally placed on public display before a board holds a hearing and adopts a final budget, giving residents a window to review the document. In this case, the minutes do not state where the tentative budget will be available, for how long, or when a hearing or final adoption vote is expected. The minutes and agenda also do not state the beginning and ending dates of the district’s FY27.

No dollar figures appear anywhere in the meeting materials reviewed for this story. The tentative budget document itself was not included, so the district’s projected revenues, expenditures and fund-by-fund balances for the year are not part of the available public record of this action.

The board handled its other routine financial business earlier in the meeting, inside a single consent agenda motion made by Wilhoit and seconded by board member Baird, which passed 7-0. According to the agenda, that consent agenda covered approval of board of education minutes, approval of monthly expenditures, approval of the treasurer’s report, a budget comparison report, activity fund reports and FOIA requests. The minutes record no amounts for the expenditures approved and no totals from the treasurer’s or activity fund reports, and they do not indicate how many FOIA requests the district had received or what they sought.

Immediately before the budget vote, the board approved a separate fiscal item, voting 7-0 to approve what the minutes describe as “the Federal Mileage Reimbursement Rate of $0.76,” on a motion by board member Maxwell seconded by board member Kannmacher.

The tentative budget covers the same fiscal year in which Superintendent Robert Waggoner’s retirement takes effect. The board voted later in the meeting to accept his retirement letter effective June 30, 2027. The minutes do not indicate whether the tentative budget reflects any costs associated with a leadership transition.

The board’s next regular meeting is scheduled for Sept. 24.