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Watchung Hills projects steep health-care, special-education and technology cost pressures in preliminary 2025'26 budget
Summary
Business administrator Tim Stice presented a preliminary 2025'26 budget showing flat enrollment, a 2% local tax cap (about $700,000), an expected health-care increase near 11'12%, a settled teacher contract at 3.4% and declining send'receive tuition that could reduce revenues by roughly $400,000.
Tim Stice, presenting the district's preliminary 2025'26 budget, told the board the document is an initial look at revenue and expense pressures and that detailed numbers will be refined after the governor's state budget address. "This is our first shot at the budget. It's kind of preliminary information. There's not a lot, not a lot of detail, but just enough," Stice said.
Stice highlighted several cost drivers: a projected double-digit increase in health-care premiums (he and the finance committee were looking at about 11'12 percent, but the figure remained subject to change), escalating special-education tuition and transportation costs, and ongoing technology and maintenance increases. He…
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