photo by Paul Fixx
HARDWICK, WOLCOTT – The second round of school budget votes failed today in both the Mountain View Union and Wolcott School Districts. Both school boards submitted the same budget that had been submitted on Town Meeting Day, saying a state buy down would lower tax rates, but voters rejected that.
In the Mountain View Union District, with schools in Hardwick, Greensboro and Woodbury, votes are totaled for these three towns, plus Stannard. Voters cast 597 votes, with 315 voting no and 282 yes. Those 597 votes were well below the Town Meeting Day vote total of 778. The vote failed by a wider margin than the Town Meeting Day vote, where 389 voted against the budget and 377 for it.
One-hundred-forty-nine (149) votes against the budget in Wolcott won out over the 121 votes for it. Those 270 votes were 20 more than the 250 cast on Town Meeting Day in a much closer vote than the 142 no votes and 108 yes votes then.
Paul Fixx is editor of The Hardwick Gazette and lives in Hardwick.
