ANWSD cuts budget by 1.3%, foresees tax hike

VERGENNES — After months of intense public debate over how to address sharply rising costs and steadily declining enrollment, the Addison Northwest School District board has proposed a fiscal year 2021 budget that would reduce spending by more than 1% over the current year, avoid programming cuts, minimize education property tax increases and close Addison Central School (ACS) for use as an elementary school. On Town Meeting Day, March 3, ANWSD residents will be asked to approve $21,842,595 in spending for … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury-area voters on March 3 will be asked to approve $39,507,837 in public education spending for the 2020-2021 school year, a budget that reflects a 3.74-percent increase that would essentially allow the Addison Central School District … (read more)

BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Unified School District (MAUSD) board on Tuesday, as expected, agreed to warn a roughly $31.4 million budget for the 2020-2021 school year that, if approved on Town Meeting Day, would increase the five-town district’s spending … (read more)

First, Middlebury voters should reject the proposed Addison Central School District (ACSD) budget with a “no” vote on Town Meeting Day. Ramifications of this budget include cutting one full-time classroom teacher at Mary Hogan. Justification for this staf … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — A $171,500 rise in employee health insurance costs, the re-offering of a construction technology program and a commitment to once again make the assistant director’s job full-time are the major reasons for a proposed 2020-2021 Patricia A. Han … (read more)

BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Unified School District (MAUSD) board is poised this Tuesday to adopt a roughly $31.4 million spending plan for the 2020-2021 school year that would increase 5-Town district expenditures by 1.45%, but tax rates by possibly more … (read more)

BRANDON — The Otter Valley Unified Union school district board last week approved a proposed $20,377,427 fiscal year 2021 budget that would increase spending over the current year by 2.22%. Board members call it a modest increase as the district handles t … (read more)

PANTON — The Panton selectboard on Jan. 14 adopted a proposed 2020-2021 budget that if approved by residents on Town Meeting Day would increase town spending by about 5.7 percent to $660,789. The higher spending could translate to an additional 3.31 cents … (read more)

FERRISBURGH — The Ferrisburgh selectboard on Tuesday adopted a proposed budget for the 2020-2021 fiscal year that — assuming voters back nonprofits’ funding requests on Town Meeting Day — would raise town spending by about $51,300, or 2.45 percent, and bo … (read more)

BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Unified School District board will host a public forum on the status of the district-wide budget on Wednesday, Jan. 22. The MAUSD board plans to adopt a budget proposal on the following Tuesday, Jan. 28. On Town Meeting Day, Ma … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Declining student enrollment and rising costs — including an anticipated 12.9-percent bump in employee health insurance premiums — are in part driving a potential 5.23% increase in education spending as reflected in the first draft of the 202 … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday got its first glimpse at an $11.5 million draft fiscal year 2021 municipal budget that reflects a spending increase of $359,105 or 3.2%. But town officials are proposing to apply enough surplus funds to l … (read more)

BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Unified School District Board this week will continure work on a budget for the coming school year that, in its current state, proposes roughly $31.5 million in spending. That represents an increase of $557,000, or 1.8 percent, … (read more)

VERGENNES — Some financial projections have changed in the Addison Northwest School District recently — in the district’s favor. For months, the ANWSD board and administrators anticipated that the district would need to cut $955,000 from next year’s budge … (read more)

VERGENNES — After the Vergennes City Council concluded a highly preliminary department-by-department budget review of city spending with a brief look at the police force at its Oct. 22 meeting, Vergennes City Manager Matt Chabot offered council members a … (read more)