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Freetown-Lakeville committee approves FY27 budget, votes to adjust calendar and use reserve funds
Summary
The Freetown-Lakeville Regional School District committee approved the FY27 recommended budget March 11, including separate roll-call approvals for salary and non-salary portions and votes to use school-choice and circuit-breaker funds. Members also approved changing March 20 to a full instructional day so staff can apply for a waiver to end the school year June 26.
The Freetown-Lakeville Regional School District school committee voted March 11 to approve its FY27 recommended budget and several related funding motions after presentations from central office that warned of significant program and staff cuts if the budget is not supported. The committee approved the salary portion and the remaining portions by two-thirds roll-call votes and authorized targeted uses of school-choice and circuit-breaker funds.
Central-office staff presented an updated overall budget of $53,319,217 and a general-fund total of $49,542,654, increases they said reflect rising program and operating costs. Director of Finance Jack Higgins told the committee the district had received health-insurance figures that helped refine the numbers and described how the committee’s prior vote to use END (Excess & Deficiency) funds reallocated about $200,000 in capital costs, which reduced town assessments.
Higgins warned of staffing and…
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