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Committee opens budget hearing as superintendent presents needs-based FY26 proposal; vote deferred
Summary
Superintendent John Antonucci presented a needs-based FY2026 school budget showing a roughly $57 million cost of operations and recommended net request of $53,446,007.23; committee held a statutory budget hearing, debated priorities and deferred final budget vote while planning negotiations with the town.
Superintendent John Antonucci presented the district’s recommended FY2026 operating budget at the Feb. 4 school committee budget hearing and asked the committee to use the proposal as a needs-based starting point for negotiations with the town. The committee opened the required public hearing, discussed priorities and agreed to defer a final vote while members and district leaders meet with the town manager.
“This year our kind of main guiding principles…one is to develop and present a needs based budget,” Antonucci said, adding that “a need goes unfunded doesn’t mean the need is going away.” He described the district’s total cost of operations as just over $57…
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