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District approves budget transfer to cover special-education tuitions and athletic salaries
Summary
The school committee approved a budget transfer moving unspent funds into special-education private tuition and athletic salaries to prepay next year’s tuition obligations and cover negotiated salary changes and remaining payrolls.
The Wareham School Committee approved a budget-transfer request May 1 that reallocates unspent funds into special-education private-tuition and athletic-salary accounts.
Director of Finance Kristen (last name not specified in the transcript) told the committee the transfer would let the district prepay some special-education placements for next year — a step she said is allowed under existing law and is intended to reduce next year’s projected deficit. The transfer also moves funds to cover athletic salaries, including coaches and bus drivers who run athletic trips, to address negotiated contract changes that affected the current-year budget.
Kristen said the funds being moved come from line items unlikely to be needed by year-end — such as grounds equipment and snow-removal contract lines that were under-spent this year. She said the action is one of several transfers planned as the district finalizes end-of-year line items.
Committee members asked about the size of the projected deficit and timing for a full plan. The finance director said the current projected deficit for next year is roughly $500,000 and that officials expect to return with additional reports and a plan before the end of May.
