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Nashoba officials preview FY26 budget after joint FinCom meeting; health insurance and special education top concerns
Summary
School leaders presented the FY26 operating budget to the joint finance and advisory committee for Bolton, Lancaster and Stow, stressing health-insurance increases, special education costs and the removal of some positions as drivers of a tightened budget; a public budget hearing is set for March 5.
Nashoba Regional School District Superintendent Kirk Downing and Finance and Operations Director Ross Mulcahren told the school committee on Feb. 26 that the district’s proposed fiscal year 2026 operating budget remains under review after a joint finance-and-advisory committee meeting attended by representatives from Bolton, Lancaster and Stow.
At the meeting, the district presented “update number 2” of the budget and explained how the regional agreement allocates assessments across the three towns. “We presented the budget with a lens of the work that we've done to date,” Ross Mulcahren said, adding that the session included questions about required contributions calculated at the state level.
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