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Volume 53 Number 9
School district keeps budget vote on town meeting ballot
shelburnenews.com
February 29, 2024
In Shelburne
Good moon rising
Town Meeting Day primer
COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
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School board members with the Champlain Valley School District last week voted to keep a budget vote on the March 5 ballot, declining to take advantage of a new state law allowing districts to push the vote back to rework their budgets amid the current state education chaos. Districts throughout the state were given the option late last week to postpone their budgets to rework and re-warn them to mesh with H.850, the newest state education finance law that was signed into law by Gov. Phil Scott last week. The controversial law repeals a key provision that administration officials and school board members in the Champlain Valley had been working with for the better part of three years. When Vermont’s most recent education formula, Act 127, passed in 2022, it allowed for a 5 percent tax rate cap for districts statewide. Meant to soften the blow for districts that found themselves disadvantaged under the new law — like Champlain Valley — the 5 percent tax cap allowed for a 10 percent per-pupil spending limit, meaning that whether the ChamSee SCHOOL BUDGET on page 12
PHOTO BY LEE KROHN
A walker enjoys the stunning architecture, some new snow and a gibbous moon at Shelburne Farms.
Melting snow and signs of spring in the air can only mean one thing for Vermonters: Town Meeting Day is here. The pandemic may have altered the annual meeting for the last four years, but Shelburne is bringing back some of the beloved traditions in an effort to keep the unique spirit of Town Meeting Day alive. This year, town officials bring back the annual town dinner that happens just before the official commencement of Town Meeting Day. On Monday, March 4, at 5:30 p.m. at Shelburne Community School, Cucina Antica will be catering with lasagna, salad and cookies, followed by an update from Shelburne’s representatives Jessica Brumsted, Kate Lalley and senators Thomas Chittenden and Ginny Lyons. There will also be table displays from some of the town’s committees, boards and commissions. The cost for dinner is $10 per person, $5 for children under 12 years, and costs are capped at $25 a family. Town meeting will begin across the hall in the school gym starting at 7:30 p.m. where a vote on See TOWN MEETING DAY on page 16
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