District overview
Owensboro Independent School District
Funding structure, how it compares to peers, and where major projects stand.
How Owensboro’s budget and Board decisions fit together
The district uses local property taxes, Kentucky state aid, federal and state grants, and restricted food-service and capital funds. The reviewed minutes provide monthly cash-and-investment reports and Board approvals, but they do not provide a complete FY2026 expenditure statement, the amount of the FY2027 tentative or working budget, or a comparable per-pupil expenditure. This page therefore uses the June 2026 monthly cash flow as an observed spending measure and labels the annual-total gap.
June 2026 disbursements were $12.56 million
The June 30 financial report began with $28.10 million in cash and investments, recorded $6.27 million in receipts and $12.56 million in disbursements, and ended at $21.81 million. These are one month’s districtwide flows, not full-year expenditures.
The Board approved the FY2027 tentative budget on May 28
It also approved salary schedules, increments, activity-fund budgets, fee schedules and funding assurances. The collected minutes do not state the tentative-budget total; the September working-budget item is agenda-only because no minutes or recording were posted.
The FY2027 levy followed a public hearing and a 4-1 vote
The August 13 proposal set 85.6 cents per $100 for real property and 86.2 cents for personal property. One resident opposed the levy at the August 27 hearing, and the Board then approved the tax-rate form 4-1.
Current policies address phones and generative AI
Policy 09.4261 limits student device use during instructional time with stated exceptions. Policy 08.2323 requires procedures for safe, responsible AI use, privacy, ethics and academic integrity.
Two Board seats are on the November 3 ballot
The official Daviess County candidate list names Andy Gamblin, Ashley Kirtley Johnson, Jeremy Luckett and Tyler Sagardoy in the vote-for-two contest.
The January minutes record Board approval of the FY2025 audit and audited annual financial report, but the audit itself was not among the 50 collected originals. The page does not characterize audit findings without that underlying report.
Where the district stands
Major projects
Insurance-funded roof and hail repairs
Roofing stayed near schedule through July 2026After a March 2025 hail event, the Board approved a roof-replacement BG-1, an emergency declaration and owner-contractor agreements with Woodall Companies. June and July minutes report roofing close to schedule; the reviewed records do not state the total insurance recovery or final project cost.
- Board approved the BG-1, emergency declaration and Woodall agreements.
- District reported roofing close to schedule.
- District reported roofing still on schedule.
Funding
March 2025 hail insurance claim; the collected records do not state a final all-in amount.
Athletics facilities project
Punch-list work continued through August 2026The Board approved athletics change orders 5, 6 and 7 from February through June. July and August updates said punch-list items were steadily being completed, but the reviewed records do not state the original contract, change-order values or final total.
- Board approved change order 5.
- Board approved change order 6.
- Board approved change order 7.
- Facilities reported remaining items would be addressed soon.
Funding
The collected minutes do not identify the funding source or total project budget.
Recent news
Based on substantive review of all 50 collected official sources: 25 agendas, 22 approved-minute records and three current policies. No Board-meeting recording archive was found on the official district site or its officially linked Red Devil Network channel, which the district describes as carrying athletics, fine arts, graduations and other student events.
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