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Finance committee hears preliminary data on S.220; average education spending increase ~4.3%, no vote
Summary
At a Finance committee session, education finance director Kelly Murphy and senior fiscal analyst Ted Gates presented preliminary district budget data showing an average submitted education spending increase of about 4.3%; committee members pressed for district‑level offsetting revenue detail and no formal vote on S.220 was taken.
Kelly Murphy, education finance director, told a Finance committee meeting that preliminary data from district budget submissions show an average increase in submitted education budgets of about 4.3 percent.
Murphy said staff had received roughly 100 district submissions and were seeing an overall response rate near 84 percent; several districts were still outstanding because of differing town meeting schedules. "The average increase of the budgets that I submitted is 4.3%," Murphy said, and she cautioned the figure was preliminary while stragglers are still being included and data are scrubbed.
Murphy also summarized component changes inside the submissions: "Budgeted education expenditures are up by 3 and a half percent, and offsetting revenues are actually…
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