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Monthly Budget/Grants

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Passed · To Approve Monthly Grants · moved by Matt Hartman, seconded by Jennifer Razi-Thomas Yes: Jennifer Razi-Thomas, Jennifer Grigoraitis, Seamus Kelley, Margaret Raymond Driscoll, Matt Hartman, Jennifer McAndrew.
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Jennifer McAndrew, Jennifer Razi-Thomas, Jennifer Grigoraitis, Seamus Kelley, Margaret Raymond Driscoll, Matt Hartman 1. Meeting Minutes: December 9, 2025 Regular Meeting 2. Cafeteria Report 3. MHS Ski Club Field Trip 4. Warrants FY26 School - S26044 - $274,289.97 FY26 Refunds/Officials - S26045 - $399.00 6. SUBCOMMITTEES (COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE) 1. Finance and Facilities - Seamus Kelley/Jennifer McAndrew A Monthly Budget/Grants Interim Deputy Superintendent Kelley presented the monthly budget summary and grants from the packet. Mr. Hartman asked about some FY25 balances, and the Deputy Superintendent clarified that many of the grants are multi-year grants, all grants are in compliance, are monitored closely and are in good standing. MOTION: To Approve Monthly Grants RESULT: ACCEPTED [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: Matt Hartman SECONDER: Jennifer Razi-Thomas ABSENT: Dorie Withey AYES: Jennifer McAndrew, Jennifer Razi-Thomas, Jennifer Grigoraitis, Seamus Kelley, Margaret Raymond Driscoll, Matt Hartman B Report: Special Education Expense Update

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▶ 4:16 Speaker 4: Okay. Good evening everybody. Welcome to Finance and Facilities. We've got a couple of agenda items tonight, including, um, the monthly budget, uh, slash grants update, the special education update, and the supplemental budget. So, uh, let's start with the budget and grants update. Are there any questions for, uh,

▶ 4:36 Speaker 5: Mr. Kelly or the superintendent? Mr. Hartman? Um, thank you. Uh, just a quick one around, um, some of the balances in here. I see there's some FY 25 balances. I just wonder if you could talk us a little bit through, um, how those are closed out and whether those are multi-year grants that are overlapping to fiscal Years. Sure. Thank you. Um, yes. Many of our grants are multi-year, which means there are multiple years as a spending window. And so, um, all of our grants are in compliance. We, all of our spending windows are open. Um, we do monitor that closely through the business office. We have, um, Kim Candelaria is one of our, uh, um, strongest grant, uh, uh, folks. And so she, um, is very good about knowing timelines and letting people know. So we very much appreciate her coordination there. And yeah, all of our grants are in good standing right now. Okay. Thank you. That's