AREA TOWNS – Similarly to last year, the Wolcott school district budget of $6,364,330.18, did not pass, with 143 votes against 108, and new this year, the Mountainview Union budget failed.
Last year, Wolcott residents had concerns about taxes, with a 30-cent per hundred dollar assessed value increase in taxes, estimated to add $300 per hundred thousand of value to a Wolcott property.
In Australian balloting on the $9,173,292.42 budget, the Mountain View Union Elementary School District that includes the elementary schools in Hardwick, Woodbury and Greensboro 389 of the 778 cast were against approving it, while 377 were in favor.
Hazen Union School District No. 26 passed its 9,178,952 budget on a vote of 396 to 352.
Margaret Randolph Bledsoe and Terri Vest, both running unopposed, were reelected.
In Craftsbury, the following individuals were elected as school district officers in the town of Craftsbury; Jeannine Young, moderator, one year; Michelle Warren, dually elected treasurer and clerk, one-year seats; Cedar Hannan, school district officer, three-year seat; Michelle Menard, school district officer, two-year seat.
The Washington Central Unified Union School District (WCUUSD) that includes Calais Elementary School passed its $43,271,845 budget, resulting in per pupil education spending of $16,372.81, 7.21 % higher than the current year.
Daniel Keeney was appointed to a 3-year term as the Calais representative to the WCUUSD board.
The Cabot School District budget of $,792,620, passed with 226 votes. Two individuals were elected as school district officers; Jason Monaco, school director for two years and Ellen Cairns, for three years.
Paul Fixx is editor of The Hardwick Gazette and lives in Hardwick.
