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Committee approves moving sustained and strategic budgets to full Board; discusses grant-funded bilingual SLP, social worker and facilities position
Summary
The operations committee reviewed budget-book edits, debated removing a three-year projection, agreed to advance sustained ($125.77M) and strategic ($601,632) budgets, and discussed grant-funded positions including a bilingual speech-language pathologist, a full-time social worker for STARS, department-head stipends, and a boiler/attendant facilities role.
The Wallingford School District operations committee completed a budget workshop that included document corrections, discussion of multiyear projections, staff proposals funded by a legislative SEED grant, and roll-call consensus to move both the sustained and strategic budgets to the full Board for formal action.
Speaker 1 highlighted feedback on the budget book and suggested removing a three-year projection labeled as a state requirement because "it is not a state requirement" and the projection added little value and could confuse readers. Board members debated when multiyear lines are useful (for example, for known multi-year contracts or grants) and agreed to keep multiyear…
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