Projected county education spending now at $133.3M

Projected Oconee County spending on public education is moving higher.  Jay Schickling, the district’s finance officer in a letter Friday to the superintendent, says in his further analysis, he has revised some of the district’s vacant positions to reflect a middle-of-the-pay scale for the potential hires, in place of entry-level salary.  It means, Schickling wrote, that the new district budget jumps to about $133.3 million, from $132.9 million.