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Weare board adopts proposed $20.45 million budget, declines petition to cap budgets; urges further review for tax‑impact disclosure
Summary
The Weare School Board adopted a $20,449,303 school budget for 2025–26, heard a staff presentation on revenue declines that push projected tax rate higher, declined to recommend a citizen petition to impose a per‑pupil budget cap and voted to deliver an advisory petition on voucher accountability to state lawmakers.
The Weare School Board adopted a proposed operating budget of $20,449,303 for fiscal year 2025–26, a year‑over‑year increase the administration described as driven largely by salary, benefits and rising health insurance costs and by a state revenue decline.
Business staff presented details that make up the budget: salary and benefit increases across teacher and support staff lines, added special‑education and occupational therapy staffing, and higher district health‑insurance costs (a reported 10.7% increase for the main plan and a 12% rise for the secondary plan). Staff said the total proposed budget is $838,347 (about 4.27%) above the current year’s operating budget; the default calculation — the budget that would take effect if voters reject the proposed plan — was shown as $20,469,757 (slightly higher than the proposal under the district’s accounting of default items).
Administrators told the board the state is reducing a temporary…
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