Cromwell School District approves $577,517.71 transfer to town unexpended fund

The Cromwell School District board voted to transfer $577,517.71 to the town's unexpended fund after hearing a reconciliation update from district staff.

Mister Butwell, a district staff member, told the board the reconciled amount is "$577,517.71," which he said "represents 1.51% of our 2425 budget." He told members the adjustment was necessary because reimbursements arrived late and the town and district accounting needed to be balanced exactly for the town to accept the funds.

Board members asked whether this new figure replaced an earlier $300,000 number discussed at a prior meeting; Butwell said the amount had been refined after back-and-forth reconciliation and that the current figure replaces the earlier one. He apologized for the delay and said the town requires an exact agreed-upon amount before it will receive the transfer.

After discussion, the board moved and carried a motion to transfer $577,517.71 to the town's unexpended fund. The motion was recorded as carrying; no roll-call vote tally was recorded in the transcript.

Separately, the board addressed a small prior-year line item that had not been moved previously because a new fund had not been set up after a state law change. The chair asked about a $14.25 amount from the prior year; Butwell said that $14.25 ‘‘is from last year’’ and had not been moved. The transcript shows the board then approved a separate motion to expend an amount the chair described during the meeting as "1,428." The meeting record contains inconsistent references around the smaller amounts; the transcript does not provide an unambiguous numeric sequence for that smaller item.

The board moved on after approving the transfers; the minutes did not record further conditions or follow-up tasks for the town or staff beyond completing the accounting.