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Board reviews draft 2025–26 budget; administrators cite 2.34% rollover increase and pilot-payment shift to tax levy
Summary
District finance staff presented a rollover budget that would increase spending by 2.34% year-to-year, reviewed main cost drivers and explained that a formerly PILOTed property may move onto the tax levy for 2025–26, affecting how the levy appears on tax rolls.
District business officials presented a draft rollover budget for the 2025–26 school year that keeps current programs and shows a 2.34 percent increase in overall spending compared with the current year.
Why it matters: the presentation gave the board and public a baseline for the coming budget season and flagged an important timing issue: a large taxpayer’s payment that previously appeared as a PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) could shift onto the district’s tax levy in 2025–26. District staff said that shift would raise the tax-levy number without necessarily increasing taxpayers’ share of the total tax burden; the distribution across towns and final resident bills depends on local assessors and equalization ratios and may not be known until late in the summer.
Emerson Segarra, director of school business and finance, presented revenue and expense drivers and described a “modified rollover” approach after a…
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