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Orange Select Board adopts final 2025 tax rate of $17.40 per $1,000
Summary
The Orange Select Board voted 3–0 to adopt a final 2025 tax rate of $17.40 per $1,000 of assessed value, including a $19,228 overlay, after correcting figures that had been miscalculated by the town's DRA advisor. The board signed the warrant and provided updated data for tax billing.
The Orange Select Board voted unanimously Nov. 13 to set the town’s final 2025 tax rate at $17.40 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, which includes a $19,228 overlay.
The vote followed a review of the final tax warrant and corrected revenue figures. Meeting minutes say a calculation error by the town’s DRA advisor prompted adjustments to numbers presented at the board’s Nov. 11 meeting. The board adopted the revised figures on a motion by Select Board member Samara Pitre, seconded by Chair Aaron Allen; the motion passed 3–0–0.
According to the finalized breakdown provided to the board, the components of the total rate are: town $4.60; Mascoma School District $11.20; state education $0.79; and county $0.81. The meeting record contrasts those final figures with preliminary numbers that had shown a total rate of $17.35 and an overlay of $39,316.
After adopting the rate, the Select Board signed the tax warrant and turned it over to the Tax Collector to issue bills. The clerk, Catherine Souza, provided the Tax Collector with the updated Avitar database used to generate the tax bills.
The board opened the meeting at 6:00 p.m., completed the tax-warrant business, and adjourned at 6:11 p.m.
