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School committee sends draft $13.1M transportation budget to public hearing after heated debate over $750,000 gap
Summary
After members and staff warned the transportation total underestimates likely costs from recent routing guidance, the school committee approved the draft transportation budget for public release but rejected a motion to add $750,000 immediately.
The Fall River School Committee voted Thursday to release a draft fiscal-year transportation budget of $13,118,324 for public hearing despite objections from several members who said the number did not reflect known risks from a pending routing change.
Transportation staff and district finance officials told the committee that the $13.1 million figure represents the portion of the department’s needs that must be covered by the district after $1,409,507 from circuit-breaker special-education funding and $1,348,169 from McKinney-Vento (homeless student services) funds are applied, yielding a total transportation program cost presented to the committee of about $15.876 million.
Committee members pushed back that the figure on the agenda does not account for a policy change commonly called the “as-the-crow-flies”…
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