Schools

POLL: Will You Approve the School Budget?

How will you vote on article 6?

This is our second in a series of polls asking how you will vote on various school and town warrant articles.

asking whether residents will support a withdrawal from SAU 28, which is warrant article 5 on the school ballot this year.

Now we are focusing on the operating budget, warrant article 6, to see if residents will support that article come March 13.

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The proposed operating budget has been shaken up in recent weeks following an amendment placed at deliberative session to add $563,619 to that budget for the purpose of teacher raises.

The final proposed operating budget being voted on is $44,390,524.

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Should the budget pass, the added money would not go directly to teacher raises. An agreement with the teachers and approval of that agreement by the voters in a special meeting would have to be reached first.

Vote below on whether you will approve or not approve article 6 and sound off in the comments. 

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