Their corruption is out of control. Serious misspending is hidden under layers, protected by their formed committee's and attorneys. In this school budget, Carpenter said he was not cutting because last year committee's were formed by Belfast City Council Eric Sander's wife, some school board members, some teachers, to Vote No on the budget cuts. Totally unethical and it was viscous. Two times that happened. Those not on social media, unaware of their force. Not hard to tip the votes, those who even knew there was a vote...
This one played right into their hands, no cuts, budget through, no accountability, just like Belfast City Hall. The price tag on all these wants, recreation, City owned properties, attorneys fees, Comprehensive Plan (surely a bomb shell price tag) that will be the end all to what Belfast used to be... It is shocking how people just sit back and think this is not going to affect them. Belfast Planning Board member, Wayne Corey compared the intent of the plan to the Soviet Union. HELLO, HELLO- IS ANYBODY OUT THERE??? HURLEY IS PLAYING YOU, RIGHT INTO HIS THEATER WITH A HAPPY VIDEO. PLAYING BOTH SIDES OF THE FENCE BUT FEET FIRMLY SUNK IN CORRUPTION. Council Eric Sanders did ask for accountability with the 600K surplus in the RSU- City Manager Joe Slocum never got around to it. Too busy slicing the little guy to fund the final kill. Refusing to account for misspending.
RSU 20 voters pass proposed $35.5M budget
By Tanya Mitchell | Jun 10, 2014
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BELFAST — Residents in the Regional School Unit 20 towns passed the 2014-15 school budget proposal totaling $35,565,772.35 at the polls Tuesday, June 10.
The total vote of the eight district towns had voters approving the RSU 20 budget 1,209 in favor to 808 against.
Belfast voters passed the budget by a more than 2-1 margin, voting 513 in favor of the school budget to 243 against. Searsport passed the budget by a narrower margin, 148 in favor to 117 against. Stockton Springs had a close vote of 138 in favor of the RSU 20 budget to 131 against. Northport voted 155 in favor to 103 against. Searsmont voters approved the budget 97 in favor to 75 opposed. Swanville voted 66 in favor of passing the budget to 55 against; Belmont voted 42 in favor to 26 against. Morrill voted against the RSU 20 budget with 58 against and 50 in favor.
The vote finalizes the budget for the upcoming school year, as it followed the May 29 district- wide validation meeting at Troy Howard Middle School, at which time about 90 voters turned out and approved the figure as proposed.
The $35.5 million budget represents a 6.5-percent overall budget increase, with an average increase in town assessments coming in at 7.32 percent.
In a letter RSU 20 Superintendent Brian Carpenter drafted in advance of the validation meeting, he explained the proposed figure of $35.5 million reflects the return of some items that were cut from last year's budget such as supplies and middle school level co-and extra-curricular stipends. The district also saw a 9.5 percent increase in health insurance costs — a portion of which will be paid by district employees — and a 6.5 percent jump in the cost of property insurance.
Carpenter said the finance committee had initially returned a second bus run for students residing in the former School Administrative District 56 towns, but in an effort to offset the loss of revenue and increased costs, the committee opted to pull that item out of the proposal before taking the package to the full board for approval. In addition, the committee reduced the contingency line, which gave the district a total savings of more than $400,000.
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