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Monroe-Woodbury budget presentation restores positions, proposes $112.7 million for staff salaries
Summary
At a board meeting this evening, Monroe-Woodbury Central School District presenters said the proposed 2025–26 personnel budget would restore 6.17 FTEs cut last year, add a net 4.6 new FTEs and set a $112,689,974 salary line; benefit costs are projected to rise minimally despite higher health and other insurance premiums.
Monroe-Woodbury Central School District presenters told the board on the evening of the presentation that the district is proposing 1,128.68 full-time-equivalent positions for 2025–26, a net year-to-year addition of 6.17 FTEs that restores positions cut in the prior year. "We have proposed a total of 1,128.68 FTEs for next year," the presenter said, noting the figure matches last year's number due to restoration of prior reductions.
The presenter said the instructional staff line shows the largest single change — a 12.49 FTE increase — driven partly by 4.75 FTEs added during the current year after last year's budget adoption, a recoding of one behaviorist to the teaching line, and 2.14 FTEs returning to the general fund from title grants. For strictly new positions for 2025–26, the…
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