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School board adopts FY27 budget and approves $1.27M special article for parking-lot and lighting after heated debate
Summary
The Missisquoi Valley School District board adopted its FY27 budget and voted to place a $1,270,500 parking-lot and lighting special article on the ballot after members debated taxpayer impact and timing; the budget passed 8-0 and the special article passed by roll call.
The Missisquoi Valley School District board approved its FY27 budget and added a capital special-article vote to the warning after a lengthy discussion about taxpayer impacts and construction timing.
Laura McAllister, the district's director of finance and operations, presented Draft 5 of the FY27 budget, reporting total education spending figures and the district—stimate of per-pupil spending at $12,351, a 1.3% increase from the current year. McAllister said the draft reduces previous proposed spending by about $6,000 and that, without the special article, the overall tax-rate impact would meet the board's goal of holding increases under 3%.
The board then debated whether to include on the…
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