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Board OKs $432,000 instrument purchase for band program; approves budget amendment from fund balance

2804546 · March 28, 2025
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Lancaster ISD trustees approved a $432,000 purchase of band instruments to serve multiple campuses and amended the general fund budget to fund the purchase from fund balance.

The Lancaster Independent School District Board of Trustees on March 27 approved a capital outlay recommendation to purchase band instruments across multiple campuses for $432,000 and separately approved a budget amendment to use fund balance to pay for the purchase.

Kimberly Simpson and capital outlay committee members told trustees the district's last major instrument purchase dated to 2013 and that a recent assessment by the Fine Arts Department found many instruments in need of…

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