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Finance director: transportation brought in-house drives multi-million-dollar line shifts; special-education and tuition costs remain a concern
Summary
Finance Director Karen DeFrancis outlined revised general-fund expenditures after transportation moved in-house, reporting a $2.4 million salary/benefits shortfall, a projected $2 million specialized-transportation overage and other budget pressures; the committee approved the financial reports and related warrants.
Karen DeFrancis opened the financial report and described line-item reallocations resulting from transportation moving in-house. "A large majority of that is for the bus drivers. Again, we're now, employing them, so they're in that line item," DeFrancis said.
DeFrancis said the transfer of transportation costs into payroll produced a $2.4 million shortfall in salary and benefits lines and a $265,000 repair-and-maintenance shortfall (including a $100,000 management fee to MTA and $165,000 expected bus repairs). She reported an estimated $2,000,000 overage in specialized…
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