JUNE 3 - PUBLIC VOTE AT HOLBROOK MIDDLE SCHOOL ON 2010-2011 SCHOOL BUDGET

Thursday, June 3, will be the first of two votes to be taken regarding the proposed SAD 63 School Budget for 2010-2011. This vote will be conducted - with each section discussed and explained and time for public questions - at the Holbrook Middle School at 7PM. Both this vote and the one to be conducted at each of the Town Offices on June 8 must pass in order for the budget to be approved.

This is an expensive budget - but only because of the failure of the State Legislature to place public education as a priority when balancing the state's budget. It is interesting to note that Libby Mitchell, President of the Maine Senate and Democratic candidate for Governor proudly declares that she presided over the Legislature this past session when it successfully "balanced" the state budget. What she fails to include in that statement is that the Legislature used the Federal stimulus money intended for public education to keep other program going and, "balanced" the state budget on the backs of the property owners in this state. And next year it will be worse because there won't be any Federal stimulus money. But there will be a One BILLION dollar deficit come January 1, 2011. And where will the money come from for public education for SAD 63?