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South Kingstown school committee forwards FY 2026 budget proposal to Town Council, requests $500,000 increase
Summary
The South Kingstown School Committee voted to forward its FY 2026 budget to the Town Council asking for an additional $500,000 and to shift selected shared services to the town, while proposing staffing and program reductions if the request is denied.
The South Kingstown School Committee voted to forward its fiscal year 2026 budget proposal to the Town Council under “Option 2,” asking the town for an additional $500,000 rather than using $500,000 from the district fund balance.
The committee said the district faces a roughly $2.4 million net fiscal gap driven by lower state and federal aid and contractual cost increases. The administration presented three ways to close that gap: (1) shift shared services to the town and use $500,000 of fund balance; (2) shift the shared services and ask the town for an extra $500,000 (the option the committee adopted); or (3) take deeper program and staffing cuts totaling an additional $500,000 and eliminate summer credit-recovery programming.
Superintendent Pedraza and Ryan Kilpatrick presented the budget and walked the committee through assumptions:…
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