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Richmond decides not to hire Cambridge BRIANA BRADY STAFF WRITER
spending. The district will eliminate more than 38 full-time equivalent positions for next school year. Those cuts include music teachers at four of the five schools as well as several interventionists and paraspecialists, and making one-off reductions in areas like world languages, computer science or art, depending on the school.
The former Hinesburg police chief will not lead the Richmond Police Department, despite earlier being hired for the job. Anthony Cambridge was slated to begin work as Richmond’s police chief Tuesday, but the selectboard reversed that decision Monday night. In a statement to The Citizen, Richmond town manager Josh Arneson wrote, “We will not be going forward with Anthony Cambridge’s employment with the Town. I am not going to comment on any details based on it being a personnel matter.” The board’s decision came after Cambridge’s start date was already delayed twice, according to a report by The Citizen. Additionally, two weeks ago, VTDigger reported allegations that Cambridge shredded documents and deleted camera footage before quitting his position in Hinesburg weeks before he was originally set to move to Richmond. Cambridge has maintained that this information is part of a smear
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More than 250 Charlotte residents gathered Saturday for the first Town Meeting Day in person since 2019, and voted to keep the traditional meeting intact. Story, page 10.
Voters give school budget passing grade BRIANA BRADY STAFF WRITER
The Champlain Valley School District did something this year few districts do: cut property taxes. Voters seemed to like that, approving the $102.7 million school budget 4494-1843. The budget will cut property taxes by approximately four percent in most of its towns. That amounts to a savings of about $80
per $100,000 of assessed property value for most taxpayers. Respectively, taxpayers in Charlotte and Hinesburg will see a decrease of about $30 and $100 per $100,000 of assessed value. Voters also authorized the school board to allocate its fund balance of $1.7 million as revenue for future budgets, 5155-1148. Throughout the budget process, superintendent Adam Bunting and school board members have reit-
erated the responsibility that they feel towards their taxpayers. After the state’s school funding formula changed last year and the district saw its first budget fail, school officials entered this budget season trying to balance the needs of the students with the means of the taxpayers. The budget cuts made this year in order to achieve less than one percent increase over current spending are mostly in personnel
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