DESE Function: 1000 – District Leadership & Administration (Total FY27 Budget of $2.26M)

1000: Includes School Committee, Central Office, Business Office, Districtwide Technology including the Student Information System, Legal Services

• Legal Services: Increase of $20,000 (Total Budget $120,000)
• No major changes

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• Total FY27 Preliminary Budget Increase: $72,251 (4%)
• This increase represents 0.5% of the total preliminary budget increase of 2.96%.

DESE Function: 2000 – Instructional Services (Total FY27 Budget of $52.29M)

2100: Districtwide Academic Leadership: Department Chairs and Team Chairs

• Move 1.0 FTE Team chair to the grant fund in FY26
• Total FY27 Preliminary Budget decrease -$192,010 (-10.5%)

2200: School Building Leadership: School Leadership Offices

• Substitute Costs: Increase of $15,000 due to projected need
• No major changes

2300: Teaching Services: Classroom Teachers, Special Education Teachers

• Elementary schools FTE shift for transferring Willett from Kindergarten school to K-4
• Currently no proposed changes in FTEs

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DESE Function: 2000 – Instructional Services (continued)

2300: Other Teaching Services: Speech, PT, Substitutes, Summer Stipends, Paraprofessionals, Library, Distance Learning

• The plan includes FY26 adjustment moving paraprofessionals (paras) from the general fund to the 240 grant and moving Occupational Therapy/Physical Therapy (OT/PT) from the 240 grant to the general fund, resulting in a decrease of 3.6 FTEs in FY26. No major changes are projected for FY27.
• Long-term substitute budget of $140,000 due to projected need.

2350: Professional Development: Stipends and costs for PD

• Professional Development (PD): Increase of $81,000
• No other major changes

2400: Instructional Materials and Equipment

• HS-INN PATHWAYS decrease -$26,800 (-46.4%)
• Hardware device decrease a total of -$107,600
• SPED software decrease -$29,663 (-78.1%)
• Total FY27 Preliminary Budget decrease -$93,593 (-4.8%)

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DESE Function: 2000 – Instructional Services (continued)

2700: Guidance, Counseling & Testing Services

• Currently no proposed changes in FTEs
• No other major changes

2800: Psychological Services

• Currently no proposed changes in FTEs
• No other major changes

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• Total FY27 Preliminary Budget Increase: $2,551,532 (5.1%)
• 3.9% of Total Preliminary Budget Increase of 2.96%

DESE Function: 3000 – Other School Services (Total FY27 Budget $6.84M)

3100: Attendance & Parent Liaison Services

• Small decrease of $3,000 for residency and attendance checking

3200: Medical/Health Services: School Nurses

• Currently no proposed changes in FTEs
• Increase of $19,299 for Cartwheel Health; portion paid by grant funds in FY26
• No other major changes

3300: Student Transportation Services

• Regular Bus Transportation “Yellow-Buses”: increase contracted services rates for new bus contract; $101,000
• Transportation driver expense decrease -$197,189 (-14.1%)
• Bus monitor expense increase $109,950 (21.6%) due to projected needed
• McKinney-Vento Transportation: level-funded
• Take into account credits for transportation fees, federal/state funding for homeless transportation, and Circuit Breaker for special education transportation

DESE Function: 3000 – Other School Services (continued)

3400: Food Services: Lunch Stipends

• Decrease -$3,996 (-3.1%)

3510: Athletic Services

• Currently no proposed changes in FTEs
• No major changes

3520: Other Student Activities: Audio-Visual Department

• No major changes

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• Total FY27 Preliminary Budget Increase: $60,235 (0.9%)
• 0.1% of Total Preliminary Budget Increase of 2.96%

DESE Function: 4000 – Operations & Maintenance of Plant (Total FY27 Budget $853K)

4100: Utilities: Cell Phone Expenses

• No major changes

4200: Maintenance of Equipment: Includes Classroom Furniture

• Small increase of $8,690 for classroom furniture from schools

4400: Network & Telecommunications: IT Staff, Software Licensing, Supplies

• Currently no proposed changes in FTEs
• No other major changes

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• Total FY27 Preliminary Budget Increase: $35,225 (4.3%)
• 0.1% of Total Preliminary Budget Increase of 2.96%

DESE Function: 5000 – Benefits & Fixed Charges (Total FY27 Budget $5K)

• Employee Separation Costs moved to Town Budget for Compensated Absences
• No other major changes
• 0% of Total Preliminary Budget Increase of 2.96%

DESE Function: 6000 – Community Services (Total FY27 Budget $6K)

• Includes costs for Youth Behavioral Survey
• Small decrease of -$500

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• Total FY27 Preliminary Budget Decrease: -$500 (-7.7%)
• -0.0% of Total Preliminary Budget Increase of 2.96%

DESE Function: 9000 – Programs with Other School Districts (Total FY27 Budget $4.97M)

• Includes costs for Out-of-District Tuitions
• Decrease total tuition payments from approximately $11.5M in FY26 budget to $10.3M in FY27
• Includes credit of $150,000 from SPED IDEA (240) grant (same as FY26 budget)
• Includes Circuit Breaker credit of $5,201,000 (compared to FY26 budgeted credit of $5,430,000)
• No assumed credit from SPED Reserve Fund (compared to FY26 budgeted credit of $550,000)

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• Total FY27 Preliminary Budget decrease: -$1,063,966 (-17.6%)
• -1.6% of Total Preliminary Budget Increase of 2.96%