Wrangell Public Schools has adopted a final draft budget for the coming year.

Meeting Monday evening at Evergreen Elementary School, the board voted to approve the third draft, which projects expenditures totaling $5,860,894. Attendance for the year is anticipated at 273 students. Costs since the first draft was put forward in February have come down by about $134,000 in expected benefits, due to lower insurance rates.

“It's fairly straightforward, which is not always the case for the budget,” school superintendent Patrick Mayer explained.

Some savings from the benefits item saw a reduc...