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Weston previews FY26 budget changes after health-insurance uncertainty and lower special-education reimbursement
Summary
School finance staff told the Weston Board of Education that uncertainty over health-insurance rates and a decline in the state's excess-cost reimbursement estimate will change the district's FY26 request, lowering the proposed increase to about 3.43% from 4.75% if certain adjustments hold.
The Weston Board of Education heard a budget update Tuesday that narrows its proposed FY26 spending increase after staff factored in alternative health-insurance scenarios and a lower-than-expected state reimbursement for special-education costs.
District finance staff told the board the budget request could fall by about $782,000 — from a 4.75% increase to approximately 3.43% — if the district were to move to the state partnership health plan and adopt several internal savings assumptions. That change would be driven largely by comparing the state partnership plan with other vendor projections and by a projected drop in excess-cost reimbursement from 68% to 59%.
Phil Cross, the district staff member who presented the figures, said the district ran comparisons using three escalation scenarios for…
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