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Select Board adopts FY27 budget; schools request additional $225,000 pending FinCom review
Summary
Select Board adopted the FY27 budget as presented but heard requests from Nantucket Public Schools for $75,000 to cover teacher column changes and from the Nantucket Community School for $150,000 to maintain programs; finance staff warned adding the full request could push budgets over levy limits, and the board asked for further FinCom review.
The Select Board voted unanimously Jan. 14 to adopt the town’s proposed FY27 budget as presented while continuing discussions on several supplemental school funding requests.
Superintendent Beth Helt and Martin Engleb, the public‑schools chief financial officer, requested $75,000 to cover unanticipated teacher column changes under collective bargaining deadlines that fall before…
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