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School committee presses for clearer timeline after last year’s budget disruption

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Members urged the town and finance committee to present realistic constraints earlier in the budget process and flagged the need to avoid late changes after the committee votes its budget.

School committee members pressed for greater clarity about the town's budget timeline and urged that any townwide constraints be communicated before the school committee finalizes its proposed budget.

Multiple members raised concerns that last year's sequencing created confusion when town-level budget asks appeared after the school committee had already voted its numbers. One committee member said…

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