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Board reviews FY27 draft showing $1.6 million increase; transportation, class-size mandates and special-education allocations highlighted
Summary
The board reviewed a preliminary FY27 budget draft that currently shows a roughly $1.6 million increase driven by salary and benefit placeholders, discussed class-size mandates under Act 73, transportation contracting and reallocated special‑education chargebacks; finance staff said draft 2 will refine staffing and contracted services.
Trustees reviewed draft 1 of the Missisquoi Valley School District #89 FY27 budget and spent the bulk of the meeting probing staffing, benefit assumptions and contract timelines.
Laura McAllister, director of finance and operations, told the board that draft 1 represents current staffing plus negotiated and placeholder increases and amounts to roughly a $1.6 million increase over FY26. "Draft 1 is an increase of 1,600,000," she said, and she identified $460,000 of that as benefit increases and about $1.1 million as salary-related increases built into the draft for planning purposes.
McAllister and other…
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