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Regional school finance team presents FY26 budget and capital plan; board questions bleacher, door and security costs
Summary
Doug Slaughter, assistant superintendent for finance operations and HR, presented the regional school district’s draft FY26 operating budget and a multi‑year capital plan to the Town of Hampden Select Board; the presentation showed a roughly 6.3 percent operating increase and several capital requests including bleachers, camera upgrades and HVAC work.
Doug Slaughter, assistant superintendent for finance operations and HR for the regional school district, presented a draft FY26 operating budget and a multi‑year capital plan to the Town of Hampden Select Board and the advisory/operations subcommittee on March 3.
Slaughter told the board the district’s consolidated request shows an overall operating increase of about 6.3 percent compared with the current year, with major drivers including a roughly 30 percent rise in the Hampshire County retirement assessment and continued health insurance costs (a smaller increase than initially projected). He said the district has refined transportation and health insurance estimates and is budgeting modest COLA figures in line with ongoing negotiations.
On capital, Slaughter described several items in the fiscal‑26…
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