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Middlesex supervisors approve budget moves so schools can pay $1,000 retention bonus

3204888 · May 7, 2025
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Summary

The board approved a school budget supplement to reallocate categorical funds after the governor signed a state budget provision that provides funds for $1,000 bonuses to returning school division employees; the school division will seek final action at its next meeting.

Middlesex County supervisors on a unanimous vote approved a budget-supplement request that reassigns existing school division funds so the division can pay a $1,000 retention bonus to staff who return for the next school year.

The vote came after Dr. Mary Sites, a school representative, told the board that the state’s recently signed budget includes categorical funds for SOQ-funded instructional positions and other allocations that require reclassification within the school budget before the division may pay bonuses. “We have the money. We…

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