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Lowell committee votes to free $400,000 in budget cuts to restore three student-support roles
Summary
After a lengthy debate about positions placed in a suspense account, the committee voted unanimously on a mayor-led motion to cut specified line items to free roughly $400,000 so three student-support specialists can be restored; the FY27 bottom-line figure discussed was $287,966,413.
The Lowell School Committee spent a substantial portion of its May 6 meeting on the final FY27 budget and the status of positions that had been placed in a suspense account.
The committee considered a final bottom-line FY27 figure of $287,966,413. Members debated whether six student-support specialist positions that had been placed in suspense earlier in the process had been fully restored. The superintendent explained that six positions entered suspense but three had been reallocated to restore a fine arts chair and a music teacher; that left three…
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