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Town posts resident tax-impact calculator ahead of $109 million school vote; finance team models $600 average impact
Summary
Staff and volunteers built an online calculator that lets homeowners estimate how the proposed $109 million school project would affect their tax bills; board members and advisory committees modeled scenarios showing roughly $600 average annual impact for an example house in peak years.
Select Board members and volunteer advisers presented a resident‑facing tax‑impact calculator on April 29 to show how the proposed $109 million NEARIE elementary‑school project could affect individual tax bills.
Andrew (Select Board member) and finance staff said the project cost in the model is $109,000,000 with an anticipated MSBA reimbursement of about $35,000,000; staff included a scenario in which supplemental federal or state energy grants reduce the town’s net borrowing to roughly…
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