Votes at a glance: committee advances FY26 school appropriation items and approves routine minutes and donations

The Nantucket School Committee on March 4 moved forward a recommended fiscal-year 2026 public school appropriation (identified as Article 8 in the meeting). The overall total as read in the transcript is unclear; the presenter listed payroll and operating components as $35,000,762 for payroll and $7,384,075 for operating expenses, and referenced a community school appropriation of $600,000 for payroll. The transcript’s reading of the total appropriation was not transcribed cleanly and is therefore recorded here as not specified in the meeting record.

The committee also approved a donation from Friends of Nantucket Public Schools to the Nantucket High School Diversity Club in the amount of $1,900. The committee approved these and several routine items by voice vote; the minutes show the motions were moved and seconded and committee members answered "Aye." No roll-call tallies or individual vote records were provided in the transcript.

Items approved by voice vote during the meeting (as recorded in the transcript): the FY2026 public school appropriation recommendation (Article 8), the $1,900 donation to the Nantucket High School Diversity Club, approval of the January 2025 workshop executive session minutes, approval of the February 4, 2025 public hearing minutes, approval of the February 4, 2025 meeting minutes, approval of the February 18, 2025 workshop minutes, and approval of transfers and invoices. Each motion was moved and seconded and received an "Aye" voice vote according to the transcript.

The committee did not provide named movers or seconders in the transcript for these motions; votes were recorded as voice approval. Any precise appropriation totals not clearly spoken in the meeting transcript are listed below as not specified and annotated with the verbatim excerpt where the number is unclear.