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Finance committee reviews February report showing $274,779 surplus
Summary
At a March 19 special meeting, the Darien School District finance committee reviewed the February financial report, which shows a $274,779 positive balance driven by salary and timing savings and excess-cost reimbursements; members asked about snow-removal overtime, ELP tuition reclassifications and an ARP mental-health grant winding down.
The Darien School District finance committee met in a special session on Thursday, March 19, to review the district’s February 2026 financial report and to take questions from committee members.
A district staff member identified in the record as Rich presented the report, saying, “We do show a positive balance of 274,779,” a month-to-month increase of just over $8,000. He attributed the change mainly to salary savings and timing effects from a short month with snow days.
Rich walked through several line items the committee flagged. He said general-education resource centers (RCs) were positive by $12,822, while special-education RCs showed a positive balance the transcript records as $261,009.57 (formatted in the record as “261009 57”). He noted that much of the special-education surplus stems from excess-cost reimbursement…
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