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Bill seeks to bar school‑board member from voting on cooperative district budget committee and to require budget‑committee review of mid‑year appropriations
Summary
Rep. Skillzbury said HB 394 would stop an ex‑officio school‑board member from voting on cooperative school district budget committees and require those committees to review supplemental appropriations made after annual budgets (for example, new state aid allocations) before a warrant article is printed.
Representative Skillzbury (prime sponsor) presented House Bill 394, which has two parts: (1) an amendment to remove voting authority from a school‑board member who sits ex officio on a cooperative school district budget committee, and (2) a provision requiring cooperative district budget committees to review and evaluate proposed warrant articles, supplemental appropriations and withdrawals from capital‑reserve funds that are presented between annual budget cycles, with a recorded committee recommendation to be printed for voters.
Skillzbury told the committee the proposal arises from practical problems in multi‑town cooperative…
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