District overview
Hazard Independent Schools
Funding structure, how it compares to peers, and where major projects stand.
What Hazard Independent’s current public records show
The FY2025 audit issued unmodified opinions and reported no financial-statement or major federal-program findings. Current policies restrict instructional-time device use and require procedures for responsible AI and emerging-technology use.
Auditors issued unmodified opinions
The audit reported no financial-statement findings, no major federal-program findings, and no material noncompliance required to be reported.
The FY2027 tentative General Fund budget uses $13.25 million in total resources
The total includes a $2.85 million beginning balance and $10.40 million in planned receipts, matched by $13.25 million in appropriations.
Sondra Combs’s contract runs through June 2027
The contract states a 240-day work year and annual compensation of $134,364.92.
Personal devices are restricted during instructional time
Policy preserves emergency, teacher-directed, teacher-authorized, and disability-law exceptions.
Emerging-technology procedures must address AI
Current policy calls for safeguards around safety, privacy, ethics, cheating, and plagiarism.
Because the official archive did not provide approved minutes or recordings, meeting reports describe agendas and proposed business rather than outcomes.
Where the district stands
Major projects
FY2027 General Fund tentative budget
tentative budget publishedThe tentative budget shows $13,254,515 in General Fund total resources and appropriations. That total includes a $2,850,000 beginning balance and $10,404,515 in planned receipts; it is a plan, not audited actual spending.
- The May Board agenda listed the tentative budget for consideration.
Funding
General Fund total resources: $2,850,000 beginning balance plus $10,404,515 planned receipts
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