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   {
    "block": "late",
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    "why": "the funding source for the sports restoration"
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    "item": "Select Board calls the Special Town Meeting for 3 September",
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   {
    "block": "override",
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    "block": "override",
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    "item": "A citizens’ petition — Article 3 — for middle school sports and transportation",
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    "block": "override",
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    "block": "override",
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     "label": "Select Board, 2026-09-01 · 58:02",
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   {
    "block": "override",
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     "label": "School Committee, 2026-09-09 · 7:47",
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   {
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    "fte": null,
    "item": "The superintendent’s spending plan",
    "note": "the analysis carries the published table",
    "scope": "school",
    "status": "tier",
    "who": "the superintendent",
    "why": "two reading specialists, the high school assistant principal to full time, Ignite tutoring seats, 0.4 music — $350,000 of it from the Special Town Meeting"
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   {
    "block": "proposals",
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     "board": "School Committee",
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     "kind": "meeting",
     "label": "School Committee, 2026-08-26 · 83:39",
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    "date": "2026-08-26",
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    "who": "School Committee vote",
    "why": "a second-grade teacher, literacy professional development and athletic transportation — 3–1, one abstention"
   },
   {
    "block": "proposals",
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     "board": "School Committee",
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     "label": "School Committee, 2026-07-15 · 9:18",
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    "fte": null,
    "item": "What the town would back",
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    "status": "tier",
    "who": "the town manager and Select Board",
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 "rows": 42,
 "source": "sources/data/budget-seasons/fy27-summer-governors-budget.csv",
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   "sub": "",
   "title": "How it ended"
  },
  "cuts": {
   "sub": "What the balanced budget took in June once both override questions failed, what the September money restored, and what stayed cut.",
   "title": "The June cuts, and what came back"
  },
  "cuts.cut": {
   "sub": "",
   "title": "Stayed cut"
  },
  "cuts.off": {
   "sub": "",
   "title": "Came back"
  },
  "deficit": {
   "sub": "How much more the state sent than the town had budgeted — and how much of it the schools asked for.",
   "title": "The new money"
  },
  "final": {
   "sub": "",
   "title": "Final — what the Special Town Meeting did, and what came back"
  },
  "late": {
   "sub": "Free cash, the revolving fund, a special revenue fund — what paid for what the state money did not.",
   "title": "Where the rest came from"
  },
  "override": {
   "sub": "How the articles for the 3 September Special Town Meeting were written, sized and recommended.",
   "title": "The warrant, step by step"
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   "sub": "Two plans, and both happened: the July plan — reading specialists, the assistant principal, tutoring, music — was paid from health-insurance savings and aid already in hand; the $418,000 Town Meeting voted went to Scenario 2.",
   "title": "The plans for the money"
  },
  "summary": {
   "sub": "",
   "title": "Summer 2026: the state budget signed 9 July carried $471,121 more aid than the town had budgeted; the schools asked for $350,000, then $418,056; the Select Board would back $350,000, then $397,189 net; a Special Town Meeting on 3 September approved $418,000 for the schools and, by citizens’ petition, brought back middle school sports and athletic transportation."
  }
 }
}