Manchester Essex School Committee opens fiscal 2028 budget work Tuesday; public session starts at 7 p.m.

The Manchester Essex Regional School Committee meets Tuesday, Nov. 3, and starts work on next year's budget. The public part of the meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the middle and high school Learning Commons, 36 Lincoln St., Manchester, and online through WebEx.

What is on the agenda

• 4:30 p.m., closed session. The committee meets in executive session to hear grievances from the teachers union unit (META Unit A) and to discuss bargaining strategy.
• 7 p.m., public session. Public comment, a student report and the chair's report, then reports from the elementary building, finance and policy subcommittees and the superintendent.
• Budget. A fall budget to actual report, which compares spending so far with this year's budget, and the start of fiscal 2028 budget development.
• The meeting is set to end at 8:30 p.m.

Finance Subcommittee at noon

The committee's Finance Subcommittee meets from noon to 1 p.m. on WebEx. Its agenda lists a fiscal 2026 closeout update, routine fiscal 2027 business, the fall budget to actual report and an ongoing fees study, including building rental fees and the student activity fee.

Call in details are on the district's agenda page. There is public comment at the start of the 7 p.m. session.