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Superintendent previews Feb. 5 budget workshop, cites enrollment decline and staffing challenges
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Casimiro told the Danbury Board of Education the district will present a new budgeting approach at a Feb. 5 workshop, citing volatility from ESSER/ARPA and a $9,000,000 ECS increase, persistent vacancies and an enrollment decline of about 600 students.
Superintendent Dr. Casimiro told the Danbury Board of Education that the district will hold a budget workshop on Feb. 5 to present a newly structured budget approach developed jointly with city finance staff.
He said the district has experienced funding volatility in recent years — citing ESSER and ARPA federal funds and "an acceleration in our ECS funding of $9,000,000" — and that the finance team is scrutinizing repeated year‑end surpluses and staffing budgets to avoid inflating future surpluses. "We've turned up surpluses in the last couple of years, repeatedly and that needs to be analyzed and…
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