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Board declines immediate vote on Cromwell High track after finance committee deadlocks and budget concerns
Summary
After reading a letter from the mayor urging the board to use surplus funds to pay for a $400,000 track resurfacing project, the board heard budget pressures including unbudgeted staffing costs and state FMLA changes and did not take action, requesting more detailed figures and contractor timing before next week's meeting.
Board members discussed a mayoral request to use the district's fund surplus to fully finance a $400,000 track resurfacing at Cromwell High School but deferred any decision as administrators outlined recent cost pressures and procedural concerns.
The chair read a letter from Mayor Dimitri Addis asking the board to consider using its fund surplus to cover the track and noting the council's willingness to support emergency funding requests. "I hope that with these assurances, the Board of Education will support moving forward to support the track using its fund balance," the letter…
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