Athletic director
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No record held pays the director from the fee fund. The FY2026 vote set his line $20,407 below level service.
| Paid, general fund line (actual) | Level service, before the fee offset | Last draft, a proposal | Wages the Town printed (calendar year) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2014 | $0 | not published | not published | $98,669 |
| FY2015 | $0 | not published | not published | $96,998 |
| FY2016 | $0 | not published | not published | not published |
| FY2017 | $0 | not published | not published | $112,209 |
| FY2018 | $51,275 | not published | not published | not published |
| FY2019 | $78,462 | not published | not published | $87,556 |
| FY2020 | $90,000 | not published | not published | $90,364 |
| FY2021 | $91,800 | not published | not published | $92,373 |
| FY2022 | $103,752 | not published | not published | not published |
| FY2023 | $85,977 | not published | not published | not published |
| FY2024 | $90,200 | not published | not published | not published |
| FY2025 | $96,044 | not published | not published | not published |
| FY2026 | $74,406 | $94,813 | not published | not published |
| FY2027 | not published | not published | $20,000 | not published |
Actuals: later budget books to FY2022, the journal from FY2023. Wages: annual reports, calendar years, every fund, at the year of that number; 2025 left out.
What it means: FY2014 to FY2017 the general fund director line shows $0 actual, while the Town printed the director’s calendar 2014 to 2017 wages at $96,998 to $112,209: which account paid is not held.
Who held the post, and which line paid it
- Named in that year’s record
- Director line: full-time
- Director line: a half post
- Director line: voted net of a fee offset
- Looked for: none found
- Fee fund totals only: not itemised
- Secretary paid from the fee fund
▼ the event ┆ The FY2026 offset is voted
Athletic director
Peter McCauliff
James Bunnell
Kevin Bigelow
Yanina Burns
Robert Papazian
How the director was paid
Town budget director line
FY14–FY17 print no director line; FY18 a half post; full-time from FY19; FY26 voted net of a fee offset; FY27 a half post.
Director pay in the fee fund
Looked for, none found: no director on the fee side in FY14–FY17 actuals, FY18–FY19 budgets or the FY23–FY26 journal. FY20–FY22: totals only.
Athletic secretary
Darlene Steele
Courtney Fuller
Secretary pay in the fee fund
FY15–FY19 itemised by the district; FY23–FY26 our reading of hourly pay runs.
Names are from the school rosters in each annual report and from agendas and minutes. The FY2025 report’s roster is written from a February 2026 vantage, and names the FY2026 director; it is not used for FY2025. Agendas name James Bunnell in June 2022 and Kevin Bigelow from August 2022.
| Season lumps | Small regular lines | |
|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | $45,603 | $14,971 |
| FY2024 | $95,411 | $12,256 |
| FY2025 | $104,355 | $10,316 |
| FY2026 | $13,012 | $18,441 |
As pay runs charged it. A lump is a line over $1,100. In FY2025 a memo moved all of it to the general fund.
1 · The facts
$74,406
director line, FY2026, voted and spent
$94,813
the same line at level service, FY2026
$20,407
athletic secretary line added, FY2026
$0
spent on that secretary line, FY2026
$17,502
regular hourly pay on the fee fund, FY2026 (ours)
our estimate
$24.72
the hour rate every such FY2026 line fits
our estimate
$13,691.53
fee-fund pay moved to the principal line, FY2025
$51,275
director line, FY2018, actual: a half post
$112,209
what the director earned, calendar 2017
—
which line paid the director, FY2011 to FY2017
not published
—
which post the $13,691.53 paid
not published
—
the FY2027 line as voted
not published
2 · What it shows
- 1
No record held pays the director from the fee fund; the FY19 document’s fee side has no director line.
What it means: Where fees and the director meet in the record, it is a budget offset for FY2026, not a payment.
- 2
For FY2026 the director line was voted $74,406, $20,407 below level service; meetings called it a fee offset.
What it means: A general fund line can be net of fee money; this one was, by design, for FY2026.
- 3
The fee fund’s regular pay is hourly: every FY2026 line fits $24.72 an hour, $17,502 in all.
What it means: Our reading: it is the part-time athletic secretary, whom the FY26 book says the fund paid.
- 4
In FY2025 the Town moved $13,691.53 of fee-fund pay onto the high school principal line.
What it means: Our arithmetic: it is 576 hours at that year’s $23.77 hourly rate, to a cent.
| Year | Amount | What it isnot from the books | Documentnot from the books |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2014 | $0 | actual, a later budget book | fy19-supt-proposed-personnel-budget.txt |
| FY2015 | $0 | actual, a later budget book | budget-hearing-fy20-proposed-lps-budget.txt |
| FY2016 | $0 | actual, a later budget book | budget-hearing-fy20-proposed-lps-budget.txt |
| FY2017 | $0 | actual, a later budget book | fy21-approved-school-budget-6-13-20.txt |
| FY2018 | $51,275.00 | actual, a later budget book | budget-hearing-fy22-superintendent-39-s-recommended-budget.txt |
| FY2018 budget | $48,000.00 | budget | fy19-proposed-athletics-budget.pdf |
| FY2019 | $78,462.00 | actual, a later budget book | fy23-approved-budget.txt |
| FY2020 | $90,000.00 | actual, a later budget book | fy24-approved-budget.txt |
| FY2021 | $91,800.00 | actual, a later budget book | fy24-approved-budget.txt |
| FY2022 | $103,752.00 | actual, a later budget book | fy24-approved-budget.txt |
| FY2023 | $85,977.00 | actual, the school journal | munis-school-journal.csv |
| FY2024 | $90,200.00 | actual, the school journal | munis-school-journal.csv |
| FY2025 | $96,044.06 | actual, the school journal | munis-school-journal.csv |
| FY2026 | $74,406.00 | actual, the school journal | munis-school-journal.csv |
| FY2026 level service | $94,813.00 | budget, level service | final-fy26-town-manager-39-s-target-budget.txt |
| FY2026 athletic secretary | $20,407.00 budget, $0.00 spent | actual, the school journal | munis-school-journal.csv |
| FY2027 last draft | $20,000.00 | proposal, 25 March 2026 | final-budget-document.txt |
FY2023 to FY2026 tie to the Town’s period-13 report to the cent.
| Gross wages | Pagenot from the books | As printednot from the books | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter McCauliff · calendar 2014 | $98,669.28 | p171 | MCCAULIFF PETER 98,669.28 SCHOOL |
| Peter McCauliff · calendar 2015 | $96,998.30 | p209 | 14,419.50 MCCAULIFF 96,998.30 |
| Peter McCauliff · calendar 2017 | $112,208.61 | p195 | LONDA JOANNE 55,683.08 SCHOOL MCCAULIFF PETER 112,208.61 SCH |
| James Bunnell · calendar 2019 | $87,556.42 | p197 | BUNNELL JAMES 87,556.42 |
| James Bunnell · calendar 2020 | $90,364.24 | p208 | BARRY MICHAEL 24,053.56 BUNNELL JAMES 90,364.24 |
| James Bunnell · calendar 2021 | $92,372.84 | p162 | BASILE-OSGOOD ASHLEY 713.92 BUNNELL JAMES 92,372.84 |
| Kevin Bigelow · calendar 2025 | $51,743.31 | p177 | BIGELOW KEVIN $51,743.31 |
| Yanina Burns · calendar 2025 | $92,992.21 | p178 | BURNS YANINA $92,992.21 |
Gross wages in each annual town report: calendar years, every fund and every post a person held. Years whose wage pages are not yet legible in our text are absent.
Sources
- Lunenburg Public Schools — Proposed FY19 MSHS Athletic Budget (both sides, FY14–FY19)
- Lunenburg Public Schools — FY26 Superintendent’s proposed budget, 26 February 2025 (page 66: the part-time secretary paid from the athletic revolving account)
- Lunenburg Public Schools — FY26 Town Manager’s target budget, approved 12 March 2025
- Lunenburg Budget Project — munis-school-journal.csv (every school journal line, FY2023–FY2026)
- Town of Lunenburg — annual town reports, school rosters and gross wages
- Lunenburg School Committee — minutes, 4 June 2025 and 29 July 2026
- Lunenburg School Committee — video, 16 April 2025, at the offset
- Lunenburg Finance Committee — video, 20 March 2025, at the offset