The Somerset Berkley Regional School Committee approved a 6% budget increase on Tuesday and is moving forward with a plan to redistribute how much the two towns pay to support the regional high school.
The $17.5 million budget, which must be approved by both towns at their Town Meeting, would be a $1.14 million increase over last year’s.
Ronald Tarro, the school’s Director of Business and Finance, said about $1 million of that is to cover increasing costs associated with special education, including tuition and transportation for some special needs students who are sent to out-of-district schools. Required funding for collective bargaining agreements, salaries for a handful of new positions including two new paraprofessionals and a decline in revenue from out-of-district students coming in to Somerset Berkley drove the rest of the increase.
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