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      "figures": {
       "a": {
        "text": "FY2027",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2027
       },
       "b": {
        "text": "11.2%",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 11.2
       },
       "c": {
        "text": "$127,550",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 127550
       },
       "d": {
        "text": "2.4%",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 2.4
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      },
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       "anchor": "fy2027-the-school-day-rise-under-a-flat-looking-total",
       "label": "FY2027: the school-day rise under a flat-looking total"
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      "text": "FY2027 budgets school-day buses 11.2% higher; cutting athletic buses, $127,550, made the total look like 2.4%."
     },
     {
      "closes": "the special education van contract and a count of routes by year, from the district",
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       "a": {
        "text": "FY2026",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2026
       }
      },
      "kind": "gap",
      "literals": [],
      "text": "The district put its FY2026 special education rise down to more vans and monitors. Nothing published counts either, so price and volume cannot be told apart."
     }
    ],
    "verdict": "concern"
   },
   {
    "id": "offsets",
    "label": "Mixed picture",
    "question": "Does state money or the bus fee offset the cost?",
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     "figures": {
      "a": {
       "text": "$94,993",
       "unit": "",
       "value": 94993
      },
      "b": {
       "text": "FY2026",
       "unit": "fiscal year",
       "value": 2026
      }
     },
     "literals": [],
     "text": "Only a little. The state paid back $94,993 in FY2026, all of it for special education; the bus fee did not lower the town’s bus bill."
    },
    "steps": [
     {
      "figures": {
       "a": {
        "text": "$14,596",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 14596
       },
       "b": {
        "text": "FY2022",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2022
       },
       "c": {
        "text": "$111,560",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 111560
       },
       "d": {
        "text": "FY2025",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2025
       },
       "e": {
        "text": "$94,993",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 94993
       },
       "f": {
        "text": "FY2026",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2026
       }
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      "link": {
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       "label": "5. What pays for it: the fee, the fee fund, the state"
      },
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      "text": "The state’s circuit breaker repays part of busing children placed out of district: $14,596 in FY2022, $111,560 at its FY2025 peak, $94,993 in FY2026."
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        "text": "FY2026",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2026
       },
       "b": {
        "text": "15.0%",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 15.0
       },
       "c": {
        "text": "5.5%",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 5.5
       }
      },
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       "anchor": "5-what-pays-for-it-the-fee-the-fee-fund-the-state",
       "label": "5. What pays for it: the fee, the fee fund, the state"
      },
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      "text": "Set beside FY2026 spending, that is 15.0% of special education buses and 5.5% of all buses. It repays the year before’s claims, not that year’s buses."
     },
     {
      "figures": {
       "a": {
        "text": "FY2010",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2010
       },
       "b": {
        "text": "FY2027",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2027
       }
      },
      "kind": "measured",
      "link": {
       "anchor": "5-what-pays-for-it-the-fee-the-fee-fund-the-state",
       "label": "5. What pays for it: the fee, the fee fund, the state"
      },
      "literals": [],
      "text": "Regular routes and athletics get nothing from the state: Lunenburg is not a regional district, and the Cherry Sheet shows no regional busing aid in any year FY2010 to FY2027."
     },
     {
      "cite": {
       "href": "/docs/minutes/text/finance-committee/2025-03-20-minutes-7010.txt",
       "label": "Finance Committee minutes, 2025-03-20"
      },
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       "a": {
        "text": "$11,000",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 11000
       },
       "c": {
        "text": "$11,000",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 11000
       }
      },
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       "label": "The bus fee and the general fund"
      },
      "literals": [],
      "text": "The Finance Committee was told the new bus fee cut the line by $11,000. The line was voted $11,000 below the contract, then $11,000 was moved back in during the year."
     },
     {
      "closes": "the account the bus fee payments are deposited to, from the Town Accountant",
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       "a": {
        "text": "$52,717",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 52717.04
       },
       "b": {
        "text": "FY2026",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2026
       }
      },
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      "literals": [],
      "text": "Where the fees are booked is not established; the only account named for them, in the school choice fund, took in $52,717 in FY2026 and spent nothing on buses."
     }
    ],
    "verdict": "concern"
   },
   {
    "id": "sped",
    "label": "Does not match",
    "question": "Is special education busing budgeted right?",
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       "text": "FY2026",
       "unit": "fiscal year",
       "value": 2026
      },
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       "text": "$67,555",
       "unit": "",
       "value": 67555
      }
     },
     "literals": [],
     "text": "Special education buses spent $67,555 more than their FY2026 budget, and no transfer covered it."
    },
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       },
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        "text": "$633,291",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 633291
       },
       "v": {
        "text": "$565,734",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 565734
       }
      },
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       "anchor": "lines-that-closed-the-year-past-their-revised-budget",
       "label": "Lines that closed the year past their revised budget"
      },
      "literals": [],
      "text": "Voted $565,734; $633,291 spent by the close of the year. No school bus line has run further past its budget in any year back to FY2010."
     },
     {
      "figures": {
       "a": {
        "text": "FY2027",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2027
       },
       "b": {
        "text": "$649,953",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 649953
       },
       "c": {
        "text": "$16,662",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 16662
       },
       "d": {
        "text": "FY2026",
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       }
      },
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       "anchor": "lines-that-closed-the-year-past-their-revised-budget",
       "label": "Lines that closed the year past their revised budget"
      },
      "literals": [
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      "text": "FY2027 budgets $649,953 for the line, $16,662 above what FY2026 spent. A Special Education Reserve Fund, accepted on 18 November 2025, exists for unbudgeted costs like this one."
     },
     {
      "figures": {
       "a": {
        "text": "FY2017",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2017
       },
       "b": {
        "text": "FY2022",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2022
       },
       "o2024": {
        "text": "FY2024",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2024
       },
       "o2026": {
        "text": "FY2026",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2026
       },
       "s": {
        "text": "$747,316",
        "unit": "",
        "value": 747316
       }
      },
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       "anchor": "special-education-budgeted-above-its-spending-for-years-then-below-it",
       "label": "Special education: budgeted above its spending for years, then below it"
      },
      "literals": [],
      "text": "It is not a one-off. From FY2017 to FY2022 the same line was budgeted $747,316 above what it spent; then it was cut, and it overran in FY2024 and FY2026."
     },
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       "label": "Special education: budgeted above its spending for years, then below it"
      },
      "literals": [],
      "text": "A budget set from last year’s spending would miss in just this way; so would children’s placements changing after the budget is set. Nothing here tests either."
     },
     {
      "closes": "the special education van contract and a count of routes by year, from the district",
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      "kind": "gap",
      "literals": [],
      "text": "How many vans, monitors and routes the line pays for is not published, so a higher price cannot be told from more children carried."
     }
    ],
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   },
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    "label": "Matches",
    "question": "Do the regular bus routes match the contract?",
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      "fy": {
       "text": "FY2027",
       "unit": "fiscal year",
       "value": 2027
      },
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       "text": "$1,053,360",
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       "value": 1053360
      }
     },
     "literals": [],
     "text": "Regular bus routes now cost exactly what the Dee Bus contract says, and the FY2027 budget carries its price, $1,053,360, to the dollar."
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       },
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        "text": "$976,500",
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        "value": 976500
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      "text": "FY2025 spent its budget exactly, $907,200. FY2026 spent the contract’s first-year price exactly, $976,500."
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        "value": 2023
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        "text": "$29,925",
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        "value": 29925
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       },
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        "text": "$49,925",
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        "text": "$28,800",
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        "value": 28800
       }
      },
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      "text": "Under the contract before this one the line overran: FY2023 by $29,925, and FY2024 by $49,925 even after $28,800 was moved in."
     },
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        "text": "7.9%",
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        "value": 7.9
       },
       "b": {
        "text": "FY2027",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2027
       },
       "c": {
        "text": "7.4%",
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        "value": 7.4
       },
       "d": {
        "text": "FY2028",
        "unit": "fiscal year",
        "value": 2028
       }
      },
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       "anchor": "4-the-dee-bus-contract-what-is-fixed-and-what-the-7-6-was",
       "label": "The Dee Bus contract"
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      "literals": [
       "2.5%",
       "30 June 2028"
      ],
      "text": "The price is fixed but not flat: it rises 7.9% into FY2027 and 7.4% into FY2028, against the 2.5% a levy may grow in a year without an override. The contract ends on 30 June 2028."
     },
     {
      "closes": "the Dee Bus contract that ran to June 2025, requested 9 October 2026",
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       "a": {
        "text": "FY2024",
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        "value": 2024
       },
       "b": {
        "text": "FY2025",
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        "value": 2025
       },
       "c": {
        "text": "FY2026",
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       },
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        "text": "7.6%",
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      },
      "kind": "gap",
      "literals": [
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       "9 October 2026"
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      "text": "The contract before this one has not been published, so neither why FY2024 cost more than FY2025 nor whether FY2026’s 7.6% rise was price or an extra bus can be told."
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    ],
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   },
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    "label": "Mixed picture",
    "question": "How does the athletic fee fund play into bus costs?",
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       "text": "FY2024",
       "unit": "fiscal year",
       "value": 2024
      },
      "b": {
       "text": "$40,000",
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       "value": 40000
      },
      "c": {
       "text": "FY2025",
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     "text": "In FY2024 the town paid $40,000 of athletic buses and the families’ fee fund the rest. From FY2025 the district moved that cost to the town."
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       },
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      "text": "The district’s by-sport sheet puts FY2024 athletic buses at $117,555; its second sheet prints $81,553 for the 24 sports both list. Either way, well above $40,000."
     },
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      "text": "In FY2025 $47,822 was moved into the town line, to $87,822, to “reclassify expenses that had been charged against the revolving account”."
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        "value": 115993.84
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      },
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      "text": "The same year the fee fund’s high school purchase-of-service account, which carried buses with officials and ice time, fell from $115,994 to $26,685."
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        "value": 0
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       "label": "The FY2027 restoration: the plan against the sheet and the fund"
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      "text": "FY2027 cut the town line to $0. On 26 August 2026 $10,000 was restored from the town and $50,000 put back on the fee fund."
     },
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      "closes": "the fee fund’s purchase-of-service detail by vendor, and its balance at each 30 June, from the Town Accountant",
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       },
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        "text": "$113,602",
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       "30 June"
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     "text": "Track costs most to bus on the district’s sheet: $13,864 in FY2024, by our estimate 15 trips. The cheapest team, middle school softball, is about one."
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      "text": "Boys’ and girls’ indoor track each print $6,931.75 for FY2024. Added, $13,863.50 is ahead of football’s $9,078.50 and girls’ soccer’s $7,662.00."
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       "label": "Which sport’s buses cost most"
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      "text": "At the new contract’s average trip, $942.50 for 65 miles and four hours’ wait, track is about 15 trips, girls’ soccer 8, and middle school softball at $985.50 about one: track costs 14 times as much."
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     {
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       },
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       "label": "Which sport’s buses cost most"
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      "text": "The bid form projects 100 trips a year for athletics, field trips and band together. At the same price, the FY2024 athletic sheet alone is about 125."
     },
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      "text": "At the School Committee, members said the indoor track league meet had moved to the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, and that the bus is billed in full while it waits there."
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     {
      "closes": "Dee Bus’s athletic invoices, each trip’s date, team, miles and hours waiting, from the Business Office",
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   "date": "2024-02-28",
   "key": "waiting",
   "said": "The district told the Committee it pays Dee Bus for every hour a bus waits at an event, that track competitions run long, and that most of the charge is the waiting.",
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   "said": "Members discussed indoor track: the league meet had moved to the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, Lunenburg has no indoor facility of its own, and the bus is billed in full while it waits.",
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   "said": "A bus taken to a track meet at the Reggie Lewis Center waits there most of the day; a van was raised as a cheaper way to carry a small group.",
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   "key": "contract",
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   "quote": "7.6% increase in Dee Bus services 7% increase in vanpool for special education transportation",
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   "quote": "The cost of athletic transportation is not up 200%. The way we are accounting for athletic transportation has been corrected from past practice that was done incorrectly.",
   "why": "A School Committee member’s explanation of the FY2026 athletic line. The by-sport workbook is consistent with it: the cost was already about three times the line in FY2024."
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   "why": "The only statement in the record of how the new bus fee entered the budget. It is the same amount the FY2026 line was voted below the contract price."
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   "why": "The FY2025 transfer that took the athletic transportation line from its voted amount to what it spent: costs charged to the fee fund, moved onto the town line."
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   "key": "contracts-asked",
   "quote": "Chris Menard asks for a copy of the bus contracts. The schools will be going out to bid for school buses in January.",
   "why": "Said in FY2024, the year the regular-route line ran furthest over its budget, and ten months before the bid this page reads."
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   "board": "Finance Committee",
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   "key": "renewal",
   "quote": "Chris Menard suggests the schools work on the contract as it is scheduled to be renewed in 2028.",
   "why": "A Finance Committee member pointing at the one transportation decision the town controls on a schedule: the contract ends on 30 June 2028."
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   "key": "field-trip",
   "quote": "We will need to pay Dee Bus Company upfront and that cost is $731.50.",
   "why": "One trip, priced under the new contract: a class field trip. It sits inside the range this page’s per-trip estimate uses."
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   "board": "Finance Committee",
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   "why": "The FY2027 balanced budget, as presented to the Finance Committee."
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   "key": "band",
   "quote": "The transportation for Middle-High Band would be reduced to $5,000.",
   "why": "The same presentation. The FY2027 balanced budget in the district’s book carries nothing for either band transportation line; the minute and the book differ, and the record here does not say which held."
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   "key": "parent",
   "quote": "a more creative avenue for further conversation needs to be had about the athletic transportation",
   "why": "A parent at public comment, on the cut. The same meeting heard a student ask why teachers were being cut while athletic transportation was not yet."
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   "key": "boosters",
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   "key": "waiver",
   "quote": "the private transportation waiver currently included in FinalForms, which allowed student-athletes to be transported privately while district transportation was unavailable",
   "why": "A parent’s question: with district buses cut, athletes were being driven privately under a signed waiver. The FY2026 athletic line had come in under its revised budget."
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   "quote": "the verified transportation cost was approximately $58,880, which she rounded to $60,000. Of that amount, $10,000 would come from the additional appropriation and $50,000 from the athletic revolving account.",
   "why": "The Superintendent’s plan to restore high school athletic buses for FY2027. She attributed the lower figure to scheduling competitions closer to Lunenburg, more home competitions, and estimating from actual schedules."
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   "key": "restore-vote",
   "quote": "$10,000 toward the restoration of high school athletic transportation, with additional transportation funding to come from the athletic revolving fund. Ms. Young seconded the motion. The motion passed, 3-0-1",
   "why": "The vote on the plan: the town’s share of restored athletic buses, and the rest from the athletic fee fund."
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   "quote": "the reduced cost resulted from scheduling more competitions closer to Lunenburg, increasing home competitions, and using actual schedules and prior-year spring costs to obtain a more accurate transportation estimate",
   "why": "The Superintendent’s reasons for the restoration estimate, as minuted. They are her account of the figure; the page sets it beside the district’s own FY2025 sheet and the contract’s FY2027 rates without testing it."
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   "quote": "75% reimbursement for FY25 out of district special education transportation costs through the circuit breaker program increased from 44%",
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