SCHOOL BOARD BUDGET PLANNING MEETING TONIGHT AT HOLBROOK SCHOOL

Tonight is the third meeting for the joint committees (S/B Budget & Finance Committee and communities Finance Advisory Board) - at Holbrook Middle School - at 5:30pm. Second Floor near the Library.

If you haven't gone to any of these meetings before, Take the elevator or stairs to the Second Floor - Take a Left and go through the student library and through the doors on the Left. The doors will probably be open. (There may be Agendas on the counter on the left before entering the doors. The meeting's agenda has been lasting until 7:30pm, so come even if you can't there by 5:30pm.) People attending the meeting don't get to ask their questions - or make their comments - until the committees' agenda is completed, so be prepared to stay to put in your "two cents."

As mentioned at the Eddington Selectmen's meeting, if the Eddington School is closed (not this year but projected for "down the road - coming year or two"), Eddington property values can expect to be reduced (single family homes but not shoreline property) which will force property taxes to be increased to compensate for the loss in assessed value. The bills still have to be paid..... Just a thought to consider.

So when Eddington is told they would have to pay the cost of not closing the school (on top of the town's assessed portion of the school district's budget) - is this not a case of "Pay me now or pay me later"????? Especially in a town without any major businesses in the tax base - like Holden?

There were more than one or two voices at Eddington's Selectmen's meeting talking about separating from MSAD 63. And there have been similar sounds on the Clifton blog. Maybe someone needs to voice those thoughts at tonight's meeting.