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Superintendent, business manager outline FY27 budget timeline and projected cost pressures
Summary
Superintendent Sue Doris and Business Manager Amanda Kuchar presented the FY27 budget calendar and projected cost drivers, including salary-step increases, an expected near-$1 million teacher-contract cost, and a 12% health-insurance budgeting assumption; staff flagged the need to address excess fund balance under LD 1198 and to consider capital-reserve designation.
Superintendent Sue Doris and Business Manager Amanda Kuchar presented the Auburn Public Schools' FY27 budget process and preliminary cost pressures at the Nov. 19 school committee meeting.
Doris outlined the committee’s budget calendar: a joint workshop with the city council in January, concentrated cost-center review sessions in March, an April 1 public hearing on the budget, school committee approval targeted for April 15, city council approval May 4, and a budget validation referendum on June 9.
Kuchar detailed projection areas likely to increase in FY27. She said administrators (16 staff under that contract) will likely add about $80,000 in year‑three salary costs; teachers (about 310 positions) are projected to add just under $1,000,000; educational technicians and administrative assistants (just over 100 positions) could add…
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