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Budget committee recommends school budget items, endorses several education trust and capital requests
Summary
The Hooksett Budget Committee recommended portions of the Hooksett School District budget and a mix of expendable-trust and capital-reserve warrant articles, including support for major HVAC/roof work and smaller capital items; committee votes were mixed on some school requests.
The Hooksett Budget Committee took up the Hooksett School District—s budget and warrant articles during the meeting—s second half and issued recommendations on a slate of school proposals.
The committee recommended several school warrant articles, including a capital bond for building systems and roof work at district facilities and added funding for special-education and building-maintenance expendable trusts. Committee members voted 9-1 to recommend the district warrant that would fund upgrades to ventilation, boilers and roofs at district schools; that bond carried a stated first-year tax-rate impact on the warrant language.
School district presenters and staff described the scope of major projects and answered public questions about enrollment, special education costs and how state and federal funding flows to the district. Christine Osborne, the district—s director of…
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