2025-2026 Proposed Budget

January 24, 2025

Dear Parents, Guardians, Staff, and Community Members,

On Monday, January 27, 2025 the Winslow School Board will hold the first of many meetings focused on the development of the 2025-2026 draft school budget.

The development of a school budget is a long process involving numerous meetings and conversations with key stakeholders. As always, the budget is developed with certain priorities in mind as a result of our analysis of student data (both academic and social-emotional). Over the course of the next few months, budget presentations will be held with the Winslow Board of Education. I have included a budget timeline (see below) in the event you would like to attend any of the meetings. The meetings will be held in the Winslow Jr./Sr. High School Library. They begin at 6:00pm. The meetings are open to the public, live streamed, and recorded for transparency and accessibility.

During the presentations, you will hear about our successes, student demographics, our goals and the rationale behind our request.

The presentations will feature a line by line accounting of the budget and will highlight the major cost drivers which include inflation, contractual obligations, unfunded state mandates, and negotiated labor increases.

I hope you are able to take advantage of attending some or all of our budget meetings either in person or virtually from the comfort of your home. The link to our budget meetings is: https://www.youtube.com/@blackraidernewsnetwork805

Thank you in advance for taking the time out of your busy schedules to learn about the thinking that went into the preparation of this budget and the needs we are trying to address with our financial request in order to provide a quality education for our students.

Peter Thiboutot

Superintendent, Winslow Public Schools

Budget Timeline for Draft FY26 Budget

January 27th (Regular Board Meeting) Winslow Jr./Sr. High Media Center. 6:00 pm

Agenda:

Budget Development Process

Cost Center Presentations:

Transportation

Winslow High School Budget Presentation (including Athletics and Maintenance)

Winslow High School Athletics

Winslow High School Maintenance

February 10th (Special budget Meeting) Winslow Jr./Sr. High Media Center. 6:00 pm