EAST CORINTH, Vt. (WCAX) – Two Vermont communities will vote this week on their school budgets for the first time this year.
The Waits River Valley Union School District will have its annual meeting and first budget vote Monday at 6:30 p.m.
The Oxbow Unified Union School District also has its first school vote scheduled for Monday. There’s a budget information meeting and vote at 5:30 p.m. at Oxbow High School.
Meanwhile, voters in several other districts will give their school budgets another try this week, after voters shot down previous attempts. That includes South Burlington and St. Johnsbury, where residents will have a third go at their school budgets on Tuesday. Alburgh, Caledonia Cooperative, Essex-Westford and Washington Central have second votes scheduled on Tuesday.
An unprecedented one-third of the school budgets Vermont voters considered on Town Meeting Day were rejected because of concerns over rising education costs contributing to double-digit increases in property taxes.
Under state law, districts must pass a school budget by July 1 or begin the new year on a budget that is 87% of the current year’s.
