In a unanimous vote Monday night, the Horry County Board of Education voted to add 40 more people to its staff.

The school district will hire 40 new reading interventionists. Each school will have one interventionist.

The addition of the new teachers is expected to cost the district $2.8 million.

At a meeting earlier this month, the board learned they were getting more money than expected from the state, which is how they justify the new spending.

"They're finding money somewhere at the state level. What we're seeing now with state revenues it's tending to trend up," said Jon Gardener, Executive Director of Finance said at the August 9th meeting.

Gardener told the board that theSouth Carolina state legislature allocated Horry County schools $77.7 million, up from the $69.6 million they had budgeted for. The district also ended their budget year with a $1 million dollar surplus, totaling $8.7 million in extra cash to spend.

This month the board has voted to spend the extra money on the reading interventionists, a STEP increase, costing $3.2 million, A one percent cost of living increase for all employees totaling $2.4 million, and an increase in the sub rates by $5 more a day.

All of those total $8.725 million.