TOWN BUDGET Controversy

If anyone has read today’s Waterville Times, you too would wonder why all the noise is being made over the Town budget, compared to the $5.5 MILLION School budget: The school budget has a $350,000 shortfall … approximately 35% of last year’s LOCAL tax payer portion ($1,019,000). If this gap is not filled, we are looking at a tax rate of approximately $18+ per $1,000 of assessed value! ( Last year’s rate $13.54 + 35% or $4.75 increase = $18.29 per thousand. Instead, a former Supervisor appears to be making the Town budget a personal vendetta.