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Manchester School District warns of rising special-education transportation, health-insurance costs; may tap reserves
Summary
District finance staff told the committee that specialized transportation is projected to exceed budget by roughly $2 million, health-insurance claims have accelerated and the district expects to use expendable-trust funds for curriculum purchases and likely to support special-education lines.
Special-education transportation and rising health-insurance claims are straining the Manchester School District's budget, district finance officials told the finance committee, and staff said they expect to draw on expendable-trust reserves to cover some costs.
Karen DeFrancis, the district's executive director of finance, said the specialized-transportation line is "still expected to go over by 2,000,000." She said the out-of-district tuition line shows a current shortfall of about $558,000 and that salary, repairs and utilities lines are also running over or at risk because transportation costs have been shifted into salaries, benefits, insurance and fuel lines. DeFrancis said the district plans to draw $1,400,000 from the expendable trust for curriculum purchases and expects trust balances to be "somewhere between 24 and…
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