The Carroll County Board of Education unanimously approved a tentative fiscal year 2007-08 budget Tuesday that included a slight change in expenditure numbers.

It also heard updates on “pretty good” school results and renewed Superintendent John Zauner’s contract for another five years.

Carroll County Schools Chief Financial Officer Greg Denney said Georgia decided to cut out the principal supplements this year, which have been in place for the past five or six years and totaled approximately $49,200. The school system decided to reinstate the principal supplements using money from its fund equity account.

“I think that this is an appropriate measure to make sure that we are doing the right thing for our employees,” Zauner said.

The system’s expenditure for principals’ salaries now stands at $2.23 million for a grand expenditure total of $117.9 million for FY 07-08. The system also brought in $37.4 million in local revenues and $80.2 million in state revenues. The overall revenue for the system is $117.6 million - a 7.53 percent increase from the last fiscal year.

Zauner said Tuesday that the official results concerning the Annual Yearly Progress - a No Child Left Behind measurement - will not be available until the end of June or the start of July. Preliminary results are currently available and under review by principals, but he would not comment about them - only saying that they look “pretty good.”

The unofficial results of the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests are in, as well, and instructional staff and principals are currently reviewing the data, according to Zauner. Individual school results are scheduled to arrive in early July.

“Preliminary (CRCT) reports are looking pretty decent,” he said. “Principals are reporting tremendous increases in the percent of students passing in many of their subgroups.”

Board members gave Zauner a satisfactory job review and extended his contract during an executive session.

“We are very proud of Mr. Zauner,” board member John Stephens said.