Speaker 3 briefed the committee on the district’s recent fiscal picture, describing two years of reductions and a level-service budget calculation with tax-rate implications.

"With a 12% tax rate increase...and even if we just level fund it...we'd be in a place where our tax rate has gone up 6.1%," Speaker 3 said, referencing recent reassessment ("CLA fund") and an earlier period in which the district reduced positions and expenses. He also mentioned what the transcript records as "82 positions and $9,000,000" in earlier reductions; the precise meaning and timeframe of those figures were not clarified in the discussion.

Committee members emphasized that consolidation does not automatically reduce per-pupil costs and that grand-list growth can affect property-tax dynamics. No formal budget actions or votes were taken in the transcript; members requested additional financial detail for subsequent review.