Despite
the difficult economic climate, a vast majority of local school budgets passed at Town Meeting. Officials think that’s because many school boards spent months preparing level
funded budgets.
Rutland residents upset with the rising cost of government
say one way to save money would be to rein in the benefits paid to city
workers. But city officials say that might be difficult to do.
A
new unified union school district was formed in Addison County at town meeting yesterday. The
five towns of the Addison Northwest Supervisory Union school district all
agreed to the merger.
Voters in the southern Vermont town of Jamaica reflected the state on
Town Meeting Day. They passed both town and school budgets, while they
complained about interference from Washington and Montpelier.
Rutland City officials are celebrating the fact that both the city
and school budgets passed. But some of those officials may be less pleased by
something else that passed – term limits.