WALES — The new budget approved at last week’s RSU 4 school board meeting wasn’t the budget directors meant to approve. Superintendent Jim Hodgkin said on Monday that due to human error the new budget approved last week didn’t reflect the board’s intention to cut $69,000 from the technology budget. On Wednesday, directors will be […]
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Fees up, iPads out: RSU 4 crafts new school budget proposal
WALES — Regional School Unit 4 directors have slashed proposed elementary iPad funds and raised activity fees to craft a third 2013-14 budget. It will get a show-of-hands vote on Wednesday, Aug. 21, and a referendum at the polls on Tuesday, Aug. 27. The first school budget failed in referendum in June, the second in […]
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Lack of school budget holds up tax bills in Sabattus
Tax bills will be late in Sabattus. Selectmen had hoped to set the new mill rate Tuesday night, but hopes sank after voters rejected the school budget a second time last week. Instead, they asked the town manager to look for additional municipal cuts and opted to wait and see. “We’re going to wait until […]
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RSU 4 may cut sports, extracurricular activities to trim budget
WALES — When RSU 4 school directors meet in two weeks to take another crack at the 2013-14 budget, cutting all sports and extracurricular activity may be on the table, according to Superintendent Jim Hodgkin. “All of them,” Hodgkin said Thursday. “Football, basketball, drama. For the entire district. We know we can’t make any more […]
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C. King: Budget provides adequate education
RSU 10 created a 14-school budget proposal for 2013 of $36,181,848 that was sent to each community for approval by the voters. Despite significant cuts (through reduction of personnel, technology, maintenance and others), that budget represented an increase of $1,036,780 (2.95 percent) over the previous year. The voters rejected that budget proposal at the polls. […]
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Sabattus, Wales voters reject second RSU 4 budget; Litchfield approved it
WALES — Voters said no, again. Residents in Sabattus and Wales defeated the new Regional School Unit 4 school budget in a referendum Tuesday, according to results from town clerks. Litchfield residents were the only ones to pass it, voting 84-71 in favor. Sabattus voted 68-111; Wales voted 43-50. The cumulative results, 195-232, were enough […]
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RSU 4 gives first OK to new school budget
WALES — By a show of hands, voters gave preliminary approval to the new, trimmed RSU 4 school budget Wednesday night. The $17.69 million budget for 2013-14 still has to face residents of Litchfield, Sabattus and Wales at the polls in a referendum vote Tuesday before becoming final. Voters rejected a $17.75 million budget last […]