Analysis: Town and Schools
Select Board: transfers
FY2026: 1 transfer approved at 1 meeting, $520,000.00 as the minutes print the amounts. Every vote by the Select Board to move money, year by year. The Select Board’s page.
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FY2026: what was approved
1
transfer approved in the town’s minutes
$520,000.00
printed in those minutes
1
meeting with a transfer vote
| Meeting | What moved | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2026 | No formTown minutesRecordingFree Cash → FY2026 Snow Removal ExpenseTransfer from Free Cash to FY2026 Snow Removal Expense line“that the town transfer from free cash the sum of $520,000 to the fy2026 "snow removal expense" line to cover fiscal year 2026 operating defi…” · minutes · town’s copy | $520,000.00 |
Heard voted, not yet in the town’s minutes
From machine captions of the recording, for meetings whose minutes we do not hold. Not added to any total: a caption model mishears figures.
- 14 Jul 2026 · Total FY2026 year-end transfer request from the planning board director salary lineheard as $18,81.51 · voted · the video, at that moment
What this counts
What this report counts
A row is a transfer as the Select Board’s minutes record it: sometimes one line to another, sometimes one total for a batch, sometimes only the vote. Totals add the amounts the minutes print; a transfer approved with no amount printed is counted and adds nothing. The fiscal year is the one the minutes state where they state one, otherwise the year the meeting fell in, marked as ours.
Read from every set of School Committee minutes the archive holds — 590, 6 Jul 2010 to 15 Sep 2026 — as the meeting process reads each new one. “From” and “to” are read off the minutes’ wording by us; the description and the quoted words are the evidence.
27 items in FY2026’s minutes not counted, and why
- 31 Mar 2026 · Appropriation to Health Insurance Special Purpose Stabilization Fund — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 31 Mar 2026 · Appropriation to Stabilization Fund — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 31 Mar 2026 · Free Cash allocation to snow and ice deficit closeout — not yet voted · minutes
- 31 Mar 2026 · Transfer to OPEB Sewer Trust Fund — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 31 Mar 2026 · Transfer from Assessor's Overlay for Special Assistant Assessor — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 31 Mar 2026 · Transfer from Free Cash for TC Passios decommissioning — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 17 Feb 2026 · Regional Dispatch free cash transfer to stabilization and capital account — no vote to approve recorded · minutes
- 9 Dec 2025 · Wallis Park resurfacing project funds to cover the Access Control Project shortfall — a payment, refund or allocation, not a transfer between budget lines · minutes
- 18 Nov 2025 · Transfer from Article 6 of the May 7, 2022 Annual Town Meeting to pay prior year expenses (part of Article 3) — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 18 Nov 2025 · Transfer from Article 5 of the May 1, 2021 Annual Town Meeting to pay prior year expenses (part of Article 3) — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 17 Nov 2025 · Salary reserve transfers covering police collective bargaining, the Police Chief contract, the Finance Director salary adjustment and an IT reclassification (second component of Article 2) — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 17 Nov 2025 · Transfer of a May Town Meeting special-project appropriation from the authorization account to Assessors Administration — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 4 Nov 2025 · Salary reserve transfer to fund the first year of the police contract (to be brought to Town Meeting). — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 24 Oct 2025 · Public Access Cable Committee transfer of funds from retained earnings to the enterprise fund (Article 5) — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 21 Oct 2025 · Article F, Cemetery Transfer, for the Special Town Meeting; amount not printed in the minutes, funding source confirmed as old capital. — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 21 Oct 2025 · Article I, Special Education Reserve Fund, for the Special Town Meeting; amount not printed in the minutes. — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 14 Oct 2025 · Article G: Cemetery Commission transfer of funds. — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 14 Oct 2025 · Article F: Public Access Cable Committee transfer of funds. — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 14 Oct 2025 · Article B: amending the FY2026 Omnibus Budget; anticipated transfers from the salary reserve and a potential additional appropriation to address gaps in the accounting office. — not yet voted · minutes
- 7 Oct 2025 · Article D, prior fiscal year capital program adjustments: reallocation of old capital appropriations. — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 7 Oct 2025 · Article B, amending the FY2026 Omnibus Budget: transfer figures pending a legal question to Town Counsel. — tabled · minutes
- 7 Oct 2025 · Article G, Cemetery Commission: transfer from Cemetery Sale of Lots Fund to Cemetery Capital Article Fund. — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 7 Oct 2025 · Article F, Public Access Cable Committee: prior transfer approved at Annual Town Meeting, validity questioned, plus additional PAC request. — not yet voted · minutes
- 3 May 2025 · Transfer from Article 6 of the May 7, 2022 Annual Town Meeting toward FY26 Capital Plan Option 2 — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 3 May 2025 · Free Cash toward FY26 Capital Plan Option 2 — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 1 Apr 2025 · Warrant Article 13: transfer from certified Free Cash to the Lunenburg Public Schools (supplement to FY26 operating budget); language to drop out if the override passes. — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
- 1 Apr 2025 · Transfer from certified Free Cash to the Lunenburg Public Schools as a supplement to the FY26 Operating Budget (Warrant Article 13). — a town meeting article the board acted on; town meeting votes the transfer · minutes
Sources: Every row for every board, counted or not, with the reason and the evidence. The School Committee’s page.