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The fee fund paid 45.8% of athletics spending in FY2024 and 5.7% in FY2025, on the town’s books.
Fee fund’s share of athletics spending
District budget document, restatednot from the booksTown ledger
District budget document, restated
Town ledger
FY2014
35.8%
not published
FY2015
33.2%
not published
FY2016
35.0%
not published
FY2017
41.3%
not published
FY2018
not published
not published
FY2019
not published
not published
FY2020
not published
not published
FY2021
not published
not published
FY2022
not published
not published
FY2023
not published
48.4%
FY2024
not published
45.8%
FY2025
not published
5.7%
FY2026
not published
25.1%
The district’s FY2019 budget document for the earlier years; the MUNIS year-end reports from FY2023.
1 · The facts
$439,510
town budget, paid for athletics, FY2026 (ledger)
$146,911
fee fund, paid for athletics, FY2026 (ledger)
45.8%
fee fund’s share of athletics spending, FY2024
5.7%
the same share, FY2025
25.1%
the same share, FY2026
41.3%
fee fund’s share, FY2017, district FY2019 document
$296,516
added to the town’s athletics budget during FY2025
$254,121
into the fee fund on four journal entries, FY2025
2 · What it shows
1
The fee fund’s share of athletics spending fell from 45.8% in FY2024 to 5.7% in FY2025.
2
In FY2025 the town’s athletics budget rose $296,516 during the year, by transfers.
3
A town athletics line that rises may be a change in which fund pays, not in what athletics costs.
Athletics spending by fund, by year
Year
Town budget, spent
Fee fund, spent
The two
Fee fund’s share
FY2026
$439,510
$146,911
$586,422
25.1%
FY2025
$541,945
$32,796
$574,742
5.7%
FY2024
$295,979
$250,575
$546,554
45.8%
FY2023
$335,766
$314,864
$650,630
48.4%
MUNIS year-end (period 13) reports, function 3510 in the general fund and fund 1301. Spent is what the ledger records as expended at the close. The fee fund’s FY2025 figure is net of four journal entries marked expense adjustments.
What was said
“Splitting everything into revolving funds is not a good way to manage finances. We need to lay out all revenues and all expenses.”