Holliston Public Schools Fiscal Year 2012 Budget

The 2011-2012 school year is nearly upon us, with Holliston beginning classes on Aug. 30. The process to hammer out the fiscal year 2012 budget took nearly three months before the School Committee approved . Voters authorized the proposal four days later on .

For this week's "By the Numbers," we present figures from the FY12 school budget. All figures were taken from either the Finance Committee's FY12 Annual Report or past Patch stories.

$27,525,054 — The final FY12 appropriation for the budget

$27535,262 — The FY11 school budget

$21,483,019 — The amount spent on personal services in FY12

$2,289,960 — The amount sent on purchased services in FY12

$1,071,088 — The amount spent on repair and maintenance in FY12

$490,184 — The amount spent on supplies and materials in FY12

$79,000 — The amount spent on fuels in FY12

$1,599,784 — The amount spent on intergovernmental expenses in FY12

$371,068 — The amount spent on other expenses in FY12

$140,951 — The amount spent on capital outlay in FY12

$484,308 — Amount sliced off the

$90,000 — Amount allocated to the schools by the FinCom after the town received $500,000 more than anticipated in state aid in May

$435,435 — Amount of federal stimulus money that had to be used this year after the town chose to defer it from from the FY11 budget