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Hartland board approves budgets, contracts and labor deals; postpones sheriff road‑patrol extension
Summary
Trustees approved the district's financial report and a slate of contracts, including LESA's 2025‑26 budget, a five‑year natural‑gas price agreement and teacher and affiliate extension agreements, and postponed a proposed sheriff road‑patrol extension to allow further staffing and cost analysis.
The Hartland Consolidated Schools Board of Education on May 12 approved multiple budget and contract items intended to stabilize operations and personnel costs while postponing a proposed extension of a township sheriff road‑patrol partnership for further study.
On routine finance items the board authorized payment of invoices totaling $2,117,341.83 and payroll obligations totaling $4,789,511.24, approving the financial report as of April 30, 2025. Superintendent Chuck Hughes told trustees the district expects to end the fiscal year with a roughly 29% fund balance, a figure he described as the result of cautious, deliberate spending.
The board approved the LESA (education service agency) 2025‑26 budget after LASA/LESA leadership explained a purposeful one‑year spend‑down in the special education fund to staff additional behavior supports; the work is expected to be backfilled later with restored special‑education millage. The board also authorized…
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