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From FY2025, athletic buses moved from player fees to the town budget, mostly taxes.
Athletic buses, town line and fee fund
Town athletic bus line, spentFee fund, purchase of service
Town athletic bus line, spent
Fee fund, purchase of service
FY2023
$39,880
$179,393
FY2024
$40,000
$115,994
FY2025
$87,822
$26,685
FY2026
$110,650
$113,602
Both from the town’s ledger. The fee fund account also carries officials, uniforms and ice time; buses are not split out of it.
1 · The facts
$110,650
athletics, on the town budget
$40,000
athletics on the town budget, FY2024
$117,555
athletic buses, all payers, FY2024: district sheet
71%
of town budget revenue is property tax, FY2026 projection
$47,822
moved onto the town line in FY2025
$115,994
fee fund purchase of service, FY2024
$26,685
the same account, FY2025
2 · What it shows
1
Athletic buses moved from player fees to the town budget, which property taxes mostly pay for.
2
The fee fund account that carried buses fell by more than three quarters the same year.
What was said
“A fourth transfer to move funds to the athletic transportation, special detail, dues and fees and the high school after school stipends, this is the first phase move making monies available in the athletic portion of the budget. We can go back and reclassify expenses that had been charged against the revolving account.”