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Board votes to call district budget meeting, approves warrants for budget validation referendum
Summary
The RSU 18 board voted to call the district budget meeting and approved the warrants and notices needed for the FY27 budget validation referendum, agreeing to distribute explanatory one‑pagers to towns before the meeting.
The RSU 18 school board voted to call the district budget meeting and approved the warrants and notices needed to move the FY27 budget to a budget‑validation referendum.
A board member moved the written motion to call the district budget meeting and to authorize the warrants as presented; after a brief discussion about statutory timing and delivery of documents to the towns, the motion was approved unanimously. The administration said the process is repeated annually and recommended aligning the validation referendum with the statewide election to reduce town costs.
Superintendent Zipporah and district staff described next steps: signatures required on warrants, delivery of materials to town clerks, and distribution of a one‑page explanatory document for voters. “One of the nice things … is that the budget validation referendum happens on the statewide election because it costs money,” the superintendent said, urging coordination with town clerks.
The board asked that the one‑page summary be made available to towns and considered asking clerks to place it at polling locations. The district will hold the district budget meeting, then the validation referendum in June; the administration warned the tabulation may not be final until the early hours following the election because ballots will be hand counted.
