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Board approves 2025-26 budget at 5.94% after series of offsets, fee increases and line-item cuts
Summary
The Newington Board of Education voted to transmit a $92,264,913 budget (5.94% increase) to the town manager after approving legislative offset, athletic fee increase, supply reductions, and benefit adjustments; a proposed elimination of a chief-level equity/strategy position failed.
The Newington Board of Education voted to transmit a $92,264,913 budget for 2025-26, a 5.94% increase, to the town manager after approving several targeted adjustments and offsets.
The board approved a $338,548 reduction in special education expense as an "excess cost legislative offset" to be used for buy-ahead costs. The motion to apply that offset was approved unanimously in the meeting record.
The board also voted to raise the student athletic participation fee from $100 to $115, a change the administration projected would yield an offset; the board recorded a motion to implement the increase and to subtract $11,400 and $615 from athletic program accounts to reflect the change.
Smaller line-item reductions also passed. The board approved a $2,100 reduction for central office "other supplies" and a $53,550 adjustment to employee-benefits projections; both motions carried and were…
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