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Norwalk CFO outlines FY27 request, mayor's recommendation and a $3.8M reconciliation challenge
Summary
Chief Financial Officer Lunda Osmani reviewed the FY27 budget cycle, saying the board requested a 6.5% increase (~$15.9M) to ~$263M while the mayor recommended 4% (~$9.8M) to ~$257M and a city preliminary cap would yield ~4.9% (~$12M). The district plans to preserve school budgets and reconcile an estimated $3.8M by reducing non‑school costs.
Lunda Osmani, chief financial officer for Norwalk School District, presented the district’s budget book and timeline and summarized the FY27 funding picture for the community session.
"We typically begin the process in September and October by looking at how we ended the year before and also starting to build assumptions moving forward," Osmani said, outlining how department requests feed the superintendent’s recommended budget and then the board’s tentative approval before city review.
Osmani said the board approved a…
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