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Business manager briefs board on Minimum Budget Requirement; personnel committee places salary and insurance placeholders

Sharon Board of Education · February 9, 2026
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Summary

Business Manager Sam Herrick presented a Minimum Budget Requirement overview. The Personnel Committee placed a 3.75% salary increase placeholder and an additional 2% insurance cost-share placeholder for non-certified staff in the draft budget.

Business Manager Sam Herrick provided the Sharon Board of Education with an overview and history of the Minimum Budget Requirement (MBR), supplying the board with a worksheet summarizing the calculations and context.

Separately, the Personnel Committee reported it had met and placed a 3.75% salary-increase placeholder for staff and an additional 2% placeholder for insurance cost-share for non-certified staff into the proposed budget. The minutes record these as placeholders for budgeting purposes; they do not indicate final approval of the pay adjustments.

The board was also told there were no updates to the Budget Time Line. In other business related to student services and community health, Board member Cathy Winburn asked about School-Based Community Health; Superintendent Melony Brady-Shanley said the program representatives have been invited to the March meeting. There were no recorded votes associated with the budget placeholders in the minutes.