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Board adopts FY2027 budget after debate over raises, program cuts and bus funding
Summary
After hours of discussion and a failed amendment, the Washington County Public Schools Board voted 5–2 to adopt the FY2027 general fund operating budget, choosing Option 2 reductions that add roughly $519,000 to the salary resource pool while trimming select programs and device purchases.
The Washington County Public Schools Board of Education voted 5–2 to adopt the district’s FY2027 general fund operating budget on a motion that implements staff’s Option 2 reductions and channels $519,000 into a salary resource pool intended for staff compensation.
The budget vote followed a lengthy staff presentation and more than two hours of debate over alternatives that would have preserved bus replacement funding or kept the ABLE elementary virtual program in place. Dr. Savine turned the presentation over to staff that laid out two options: Option 1 would have…
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