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Framingham school budget request trimmed to 8.14% increase after $4.4M in reductions; $6.06M gap to city remains
Summary
The district's FY26 proposal was revised to an 8.14% increase over the FY25 operating budget ($172.6M) after $4.4 million in cuts, but staff said the projected gap with the city remains roughly $6.06 million. Committee members asked staff for another week to seek further reductions; no final vote was taken.
Lincoln Lynch, the district's executive director of finance and operations, presented an updated FY26 operating budget request on Wednesday, March 26, saying the administration reduced the initial request and now seeks an 8.14% increase over the FY25 operating budget of $172,600,000.
"We started our budget proposals with a number at 10.72%... our number this evening is an 8.14% increase to the $172,600,000 current year FY '25 budget," Lynch said, describing about $14 million in total requested increases (roughly $12 million in salary-related items, about $913,000 in expenses) before reductions. Lynch said…
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