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Two school accounts hold $5,222,731 for FY2026; $1,521,536 of it sits outside the school budget.
Where school health money sits
School department HEALTH INS$3,701,195 · 71%
School retirees, town insurance department$1,521,536 · 29%
The two accounts named for the schools, FY2026 budget, MUNIS ledger at period 12. The town’s own HEALTH INS line is not split.
1 · The facts
$3,701,195
school department HEALTH INS, FY2026 budget
$1,521,536
SCHRETHLTH, in the town’s insurance department
$5,222,731
the two accounts together
$26,287,474
the FY2026 school appropriation
5.8%
the retiree account, set beside that appropriation
$1,315,270
the town’s own HEALTH INS line, FY2026
$400,000
Medicare, the employer’s share, FY2026
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school staff inside the town’s HEALTH INS or Medicare
not published
2 · What it shows
1
The district’s book and the town ledger agree: $3,701,195 on the school HEALTH INS line.
2
School retiree health, $1,521,536, is appropriated to the town, not to the schools.
3
Whether any of the town’s $1,315,270 HEALTH INS line covers school staff is not split out.
Health insurance accounts named for the schools
Budget
Account
School department HEALTH INS
$3,701,195
0100-S5991992-570001
School retirees (town insurance department)
$1,521,536
0100-19142-570018
Together
$5,222,731
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Budgets as the MUNIS ledger prints them at period 12. Accounts not named for either side are left out, not assigned.