LISBON — Emotions and frustration ran high Tuesday night as parents and students begged the Town Council to approve the school budget as proposed.

The council has directed the school board to reduce the budget by $600,000. Under the Town Charter, the council decides on the total budget amount and the School Committee decides how it will be allocated.

Some frustrated parents showed their displeasure with councilors by resorting to name-calling and hurling insults.

Kasie Kolbe, a mother of six students, received a standing ovation when she called the council’s actions “petty” and “shady.”

“Stop trying to micromanage. Stop putting your nose in this,” Kolbe told council Chairman Dillon Pesce.

School staff and students respectfully addressed the council when asking for its support for the proposed school budget. Staff members gave examples of how music and the arts help students learn.

“Kids who have had music test better than those who have never had music,” said Jonathan Carsley, director of the Lisbon High School band.

Students gave statements on the benefits of sports, music and art programs and why they shouldn’t be cut, although there was no proposal by the School Committee to show this is where cuts would have to be made. The lack of a proposal showing where cuts would be made is what caused the proposed budget to be amended by the Town Council.

Other townspeople commended the council for remaining professional during the public meeting amid the insults and thanked members for their hard work.

The cuts the council asked for is only 4 percent of the total school budget, said Mike Hebert, who spoke in support of the council’s directive to reduce the additional local funds account by $600,000.

“It’s a sad state of affairs if students say they won’t go to school if they can’t play sports,” Hebert said of one student’s comment.

Another resident reminded the more than 80 people attending that the Town Council has to be concerned with what’s best for all people in the town.

An amendment to Article 14 by the Town Council on Tuesday night to approve $515,551 in additional funds, instead of the recommended $559,285, passed 5-2.

The council voted to approve the expenditure of $48,809 in excess bond proceeds from the track project, which is complete, but voted to use none of the excess bond proceeds from the gym project, saying it was only a perceived excess.