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Budget committee accepts five elementary budgets for review, principals cite reallocations and equity work
Summary
Timberlane Regional School District budget committee accepted five elementary school operating budgets for review and consideration Oct. 10, after principals described line-item reallocations, reductions tied to shared professional development and a shift of some costs from supply lines into information-access fees.
The Timberlane Regional School district budget committee voted Oct. 10 to accept for review and consideration the proposed operating budgets from five elementary-level buildings — Atkinson ($114,092), Danville ($83,114), Pollard ($129,027), Sandown Central ($36,330) and Sandown North ($88,170). The committee treated the five presentations as a group and approved each motion unanimously for review.
Why it matters: Committee members and school leaders said the schools used a shared, district-wide equity review to align spending across buildings and to reduce or reassign lines where actual spending has been lower than prior allocations. Those adjustments will affect the community’s review of the overall district operating request before any personnel proposals or the full budget is finalized.
Principals gave similar explanations for reductions and…
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