By Ethan Hartley

The East Providence School Department will seek the 4% maximum allowable increase from the city to help balance their FY26 budget, which amounts to $103,504,802 as of its most recent preliminary draft.

That represents a $4.1 million total increase over FY25’s budget, which was finalized at $99,396,962.

The confirmation of the numbers came during the second budget workshop held by the East Providence School Committee on Tuesday, Aug. 5, held from within a cavernously empty high school auditorium that was devoid of attendees save for those on the committee, district employees, and two representatives from the city administration.

Although no specific line items changed from the first workshop held a month ago on July 6, the writing on the wall regarding the difficult pos

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