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Board forwards proposed FY26 budget to town finance board and preserves high-school math tutor funding
Summary
The board voted to send the proposed FY26 spending plan to the town Board of Finance and heard administration say budget adjustments (an IT credit and insurance/salary adjustments) will allow the district to retain a high-school math tutor without increasing the previously discussed spending request.
The East Windsor Board of Education voted to forward its proposed fiscal year 2026 budget package to the town Board of Finance after hearing that staff adjustments would permit keeping a high-school math tutor in the plan without increasing the previously discussed local request.
Finance and administrative staff told the board that a $12,000 IT credit and recent insurance and salary adjustments in their calculations make it possible to "maintain that tutor without going any higher than we last discussed," according to a staff summary at the meeting. Board members emphasized the need to ensure the tutor or alternative intervention is in place by Sept. 1 and urged staff to craft sustainable scheduling so the position does not rely on ad hoc solutions.
A motion to send the FY26 budget to the town Board of Finance was made and seconded and passed by voice vote (recorded in the transcript as 'all in favor'). The transcript captures board discussion about the figure read aloud in the packet, but the audio transcript of the exact numeric local-total was garbled in the recording and is not clearly legible in the meeting transcript.
Board members requested that staff return with a plan to ensure the intervention reaches the roughly 30 students identified as needing tier‑three math support and to describe whether the district will use a dedicated tutor hire or reallocate certified-teacher sections to create a math block.
No formal final appropriation was made at the meeting; forwarding the budget moves the proposal to the town Board of Finance for further review and possible adjustment.
