Sarro SolutionsIncome versus spending
Budget scenario—not actual spendingJuly 1, 2026–June 30, 2027 · September override scenario
The two years, on the same scope
| Measure | FY2026 | FY2027 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Funding | $22,223,705 | $23,373,688 | +$1,149,983 · 5.2% |
| Spending | $22,259,709 | $24,762,222 | +$2,502,513 · 11.2% |
| Shortfall | $36,004 | $1,388,534 | +$1,352,530 |
Funding composition
Income versus spending
Where the money comes from—and goes
Funding mix
Every listed funding source
| Source | Amount |
|---|---|
| Property taxes within levy limit | $13,446,704 |
| Property taxes outside levy limit | $1,236,745 |
| School roof debt exclusion | $145,179 |
| Chapter 70/74 | $11,493 |
| Unrestricted state aid | $1,786,443 |
| Veterans reimbursements | $66,253 |
| Veterans / elderly exemptions | $95,608 |
| State-owned land payments | $167,564 |
| Motor vehicle excise | $1,426,550 |
| Meals / room tax | $80,825 |
| Penalties & interest | $80,000 |
| Payments in lieu of taxes | $10,000 |
| Licenses & fees | $250,000 |
| Permits | $163,000 |
| Fines | $6,000 |
| Investment interest | $70,000 |
| Miscellaneous | $195,000 |
| Ambulance receipts | $707,758 |
| Sewer direct / indirect funding | $2,013,301 |
| Water direct / indirect funding | $529,380 |
| Light direct / indirect funding | $630,635 |
| Cable direct / indirect funding | $110,000 |
| Free cash — reserves | $115,000 |
| Title V | $30,250 |
| Total | $23,373,688 |
Operating/capital stabilization and sewer betterments are blank in the source schedule. Utility funding entries are not gross utility customer revenue.
Spending by purpose
School spending context
94.3% of Templeton's FY2027 Schools category is the town's NRSD assessment, including school roof debt.
Context only—not added to Templeton's spending $26,987,139
These are budget and assessment figures, not actual expenditures. The district's public reports reviewed did not show FY2026 spending by account or vendor.
View detailed NRSD evidenceSpending totals
| Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|
| Administration & development | $1,396,751 |
| Community services including cable | $481,758 |
| Police, fire, emergency & ambulance | $3,567,651 |
| Highway, buildings & snow | $1,413,861 |
| Sewer operations | $1,433,985 |
| Parks & culture | $8,075 |
| Schools | $10,574,686 |
| Insurance & benefits | $3,685,757 |
| Debt payments | $1,884,030 |
| Cash capital | $112,000 |
| State / regional charges & tax allowance | $203,668 |
| Total | $24,762,222 |
Categories combine related lines from [1]. The full comparable spending total replaces the narrower $20.13 million FY2026 appropriation summary discussed earlier.
Salary adjustment simulator
Proposed wage allocations—not verified current salariesStatic file preview: open this file in a browser with JavaScript to activate the simulator.
Every repeated allocation with a documented count has its own numbered row and include/exclude toggle. Reduce any listed position by $5,000 per step, with a final step to $0. Totals update immediately across all positions, including those hidden by filters.
Required badges protect verified offices/functions in the current town structure. Their include checkboxes are locked. Each badge links to the legal basis; some functions can legally be shared or reorganized. This does not establish a required salary, number of paid employees, or minimum staffing. Salary sliders remain hypothetical. An unbadged role is not established dispensable: legal, licensing, service, contract and staffing requirements may still apply. This is a conservative source-based screen, not a complete legal staffing determination.
Applied illustratively to FY2027: $1,388,534 remaining shortfall. FY2027 proposal salaries are used in both views.
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How the salary figures are treated
- Each repeated budgeted position has its own slider. Labels distinguish rows, not named employees.
- Fire/ambulance and public-services department allocations are combined. Community-services allocations are combined; the library director stays separate because the source does not identify whether the roles share an employee.
- Police chief education incentive, deputy treasurer COLA, and town clerk certification/registrar pay are included.
- Grant-funded outreach wages are excluded from the simulator and shown separately. Seasonal wages reflect the budgeted season, not full-year employment.
- Collective wage pools appear in the separate table below because individual allocations are not provided: overtime/backfill, per-diem dispatch, call fire/EMS, MART drivers, part-time media assistants, election workers, alternate inspectors and succession-plan allowances. Zero-funded proposal lines are excluded from the simulator.
- The comparison gap uses a later budget version than the salary proposal. Gap reductions are illustrative arithmetic—not a reconciled revised budget.
- Adjustments remain in this open page only. Reloading resets them. No data is sent anywhere.
For named historical earnings, see FY2025 Annual Report, printed pages 13–19 [3]. It lists wages, overtime and other pay by department, but is not a current salary roster.
Grant-funded allocation
This allocation is excluded from simulated budget-gap savings because the source identifies direct formula-grant funding.
| Department | Proposal line | Documented allocation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Center | Outreach coordinator — formula grant | $18,261 wages; $0 general-fund recommendation | Official proposal, printed 87 |
Shared wage pools & additional pay
These source lines do not identify each employee’s allocation. Splitting them evenly would invent salaries. They are displayed in full, outside the individual salary totals.
| Department | Budget line | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Town Clerk | Annual meeting checkers | $540 |
| Town Clerk | Special meeting checkers | $2,160 |
| Town Clerk | Annual election wardens / clerks | $2,376 |
| Town Clerk | Annual election checkers / constables | $2,805 |
| Town Clerk | Primary election wardens / clerks | $4,752 |
| Town Clerk | Primary election checkers / constables | $5,610 |
| Town Clerk | State election wardens / clerks | $2,376 |
| Town Clerk | State election checkers / constables | $2,805 |
| Police & Dispatch | Per-diem dispatch shifts | $17,562 |
| Police & Dispatch | Police shift differential | $26,550 |
| Police & Dispatch | Dispatch shift differential | $8,500 |
| Police & Dispatch | Police education incentive pool | $51,902 |
| Police & Dispatch | Holiday pay | $63,638 |
| Police & Dispatch | Court overtime | $10,000 |
| Police & Dispatch | Training | $51,012 |
| Police & Dispatch | Vacation backfill | $151,378 |
| Police & Dispatch | Sick backfill | $61,974 |
| Police & Dispatch | Personal / well leave backfill | $30,147 |
| Police & Dispatch | Physical test overtime | $2,509 |
| Police & Dispatch | Compensatory time backfill | $46,046 |
| Police & Dispatch | Open dispatch shifts | $40,310 |
| Police & Dispatch | Physical test stipends | $6,400 |
| Police & Dispatch | EMD stipends | $3,000 |
| Fire & Ambulance | Per-diem firefighter / paramedic pool | $95,929 |
| Fire & Ambulance | Call firefighter wages | $18,792 |
| Fire & Ambulance | Unscheduled overtime | $10,000 |
| Fire & Ambulance | Holiday coverage | $37,124 |
| Fire & Ambulance | Vacation coverage | $46,920 |
| Fire & Ambulance | Personal time coverage | $12,240 |
| Fire & Ambulance | Sick coverage | $38,040 |
| Fire & Ambulance | Training | $19,376 |
| Fire & Ambulance | Call EMS salaries | $23,816 |
| Fire & Ambulance | Call EMS stipends | $21,900 |
| Development | Alternate inspectors | $2,000 |
| Public Services | Director succession allowance — combined | $19,847 |
| Highway | Overtime | $13,100 |
| Highway | Call-in bonus | $500 |
| Buildings & Grounds | Call-in / emergency overtime | $936 |
| Snow & Ice | Workforce overtime | $30,000 |
| Sewer | Overtime / double time | $60,000 |
| Senior Center | MART driver wages — all drivers | $40,332 |
| Cable | Part-time media assistants — 2–3 people | $7,308 |
| Cable | Additional part-time media assistants — 2+ people | $0 |
Light/water and school employee salaries require separate records. The FY2025 named payroll is linked in Sources; it cannot establish their current FY2027 salaries.
NRSD budget versus actual spending
Budget data available · actual spending not locatedNarragansett Regional School District publishes detailed budget plans, historical totals, revenue estimates, town assessments and reduction scenarios. In the public NRSD sources reviewed, we did not find an FY2026 report showing actual expenditures by account or vendor compared with the approved budget [10, 11].
| Measure | FY2026 | FY2027 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| NRSD general-fund budget | $25,285,203 | $26,987,139 | +$1,701,936 · 6.73% |
| Templeton total assessment | $8,787,299 | $9,975,010 | +$1,187,711 · 13.52% |
| Phillipston total assessment | $2,071,747 | $2,343,576 | +$271,829 · 13.12% |
How to verify these figures
- Final FY27 income sheet [7], page 1: every FY2026 and FY2027 district-budget and town-assessment figure in the table, including the calculated changes and percentages.
- Certified FY27 budget detail [8], PDF page 12: the $25,285,203 prior budget, the $1,354,660 reduction, and the resulting $26,987,139 budget.
- NRSD districtwide-meeting notice [9]: independently confirms that $26,987,139 was the FY2027 budget proposed for districtwide approval.
These are budget and assessment figures—not actual expenditures. The FY27 district budget reflects approximately $1.35 million in cuts from the published level-service request. Templeton's FY27 total above includes $145,179 in capital roof debt [7, 8].
What the public sources show
- FY27 account-level budget lines and certified amounts.
- Historical district budgets through FY2026.
- Town assessments, grants, school-choice funding and enrollment.
What was not located
- FY2026 budget-to-actual expenditures by account.
- A vendor or payment register with dates and amounts.
- Account transfers, encumbrances and remaining balances.
What deserves a closer look
- Funding did not keep pace. FY2027 scenario spending grew 11.2%, versus 5.2% growth in funding [1].
- The school assessment changed the plan. Narragansett's Templeton assessment before debt increased from $8,787,299 to $9,829,831. With $145,179 in capital roof debt, the published FY2027 Templeton total is $9,975,010 [1, 4, 7].
- Election outcome not certified here. No official certified result is attached. The override scenario is a proposal; its additional funding is not established available revenue.
- The no-override cut target is different. The town described $1,160,186 in additional cuts; the larger override also restored police midnight coverage [4].
- An audit was authorized. May 2025 Town Meeting approved $12,500 to commission a five-year forensic audit. Completion and results have not been verified here [6, Article 12].
Records needed for a complete current picture
- Revised FY2027 appropriations and staffing after subsequent budget decisions.
- FY2026 final revenue and expenditure report, with original and amended budgets.
- Current employee roster, titles, base pay rates, FY2026 earnings and FY2027 year-to-date pay.
- Restricted-fund transfer authorizations, procurement records, and forensic audit status/results.
- NRSD FY2026 year-end budget-to-actual report, general-ledger expenditure detail, vendor payments, account transfers and encumbrances.
Sources & provenance
Legal basis for Required badges
Evidence reviewed October 4, 2026. This offline snapshot does not refresh automatically. Links require an internet connection.
Both pages. FY26 and FY27 columns supply all comparable funding/spending totals, detailed revenue lines and spending categories. This is the September override scenario, not verified actual income or a final balanced budget.
Personnel schedules: printed pages 1, 9, 13, 19, 25, 29, 34, 40, 44, 49, 53, 60, 68, 71, 77, 82, 87, 92 and 100. Supplies position wages, stipends, counts and funding allocations. Sliders use positive position wages rather than collective pools. This proposal predates later revisions.
Printed pages 13–19: named municipal employee earnings, including light/water; school earnings appear separately later in the report. Historical pay is not used as FY2027 salary data.
September FY27 summary, school-assessment explanation, $1,160,186 cut target, and proposed service reductions. Page still used pre-election language when reviewed.
Articles 12–19 and 23–26. FY2026 approved appropriations, audit authorization and separate school/enterprise funding. Article 17’s department heading says FY25, although the article and voted total refer to FY2026.
One-page official district document. Supplies every FY2026 and FY2027 district-budget and town-assessment figure in the comparison table, including Templeton's $145,179 capital debt and the published dollar and percentage changes. These are budget and assessment figures, not actual expenditures.
PDF page 12 shows the $25,285,203 prior budget, $3,056,596 level-service increase, $1,354,660 reduction and resulting $26,987,139 FY2027 budget. Earlier pages provide account-level proposed budget lines; this is not an actual-expenditure report.
Official July 16, 2026 notice stating that $26,987,139 was the FY2027 district budget proposed for approval at the August 3 districtwide meeting.
Historical district budgets, broad account categories, town assessments, grants, school-choice figures and enrollment data. Budget history currently runs through FY2026; no FY2026 actual expenditure report was visible when reviewed.
District index containing the linked income sheets, certified line-item budget, reduction scenarios, presentations and budget process updates. Included so readers can review the broader record, not as a substitute for the direct-document links above.
Additional documents and access pages reviewed
Provided the initial FY26 comparison. Its older FY27 figures are superseded here by [1].
Links to the FY26 budget book, voter guide, and meeting warrant.
Scanned document; no salary values in this simulator were taken from its unreadable text layer.
Linked supporting document; retrieval exceeded the reader’s size limit. Not used for numerical claims.
FY26 link covered July–December 2025 when reviewed; not a full-year actual comparison.
Background on requesting records; no budget or salary figures derived from this law.