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Budget-transfer debate: superintendent seeks faster journal-entry process; committee cites state law
Summary
Superintendent and finance staff asked the committee to consider a threshold/administrative process to speed routine budget journal entries; committee members cited a 1994 Mass. Department of Revenue legal opinion (Chapter 71, Section 34) and asked for more frequent reporting rather than an immediate delegation of transfer authority.
The administration asked the committee to consider allowing routine budget-journal entries to proceed administratively with written reporting afterward to avoid bottlenecks late in the fiscal year. Director Spagna and the superintendent described common examples such as DESE function-code realignments and internal coding corrections that require journal entries but not…
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