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Dover School 9 School House Road East Dover, VT 05341 Town of Dover 102 Route 100 West Dover, VT 05356 March 15, 2010 To All Vermont Legislators: The Dover School Board and the Dover Select Board read with disbelief an article from the Rutland Herald on March 11, 2010 entitled Vt. school spending down from last year by [ mailto:cristina.kumka@rutlandherald.com ]Cristina Kumka. The Legislature and the Administration have been vocal in blaming local school boards for runaway school spending and are currently wrestling with local towns to gain control over that spending through a number of mandated consolidation and other cost containment laws that have been proposed. Interestingly enough, this year, according to Ms. Kumka’s article, we find that boards across the state were able to reduce needs and are saving the state the 2% projected increase to education spending of over $22 million. Local board’s and local voters should feel proud of having stepped up to the plate to do our part to contain costs and partner with state policy makers in delivering $22 million dollars in savings during a serious economic downturn. Instead, once again the local board’s and local voter’s actions will be countered by actions outside of our control. Both the DOE and the JFO are quoted in the Rutland Herald outlining plans the State of Vermont has to increase “education costs” and raid the education fund. Out of 280 school districts across the state, an analysis of 266 school budgets adopted on Town Meeting Day show that the figures equate to an overall increase of .5 percent, said Brad James, education finance manager with the state Education Department. School boards keeping their budgets low this year caused a drop in education spending – the money paid out by the Education Fund to school districts to cover their expenses — of just over one-tenth of 1 percent, James said. "The Education Fund requires less money than what was projected last November," James said Tuesday. For taxpayers, that means $11 million in property taxes won't be needed and won't be collected. The other $11 million will go to cover other state expenses and into a reserve fund to cover education spending in the future — about $7 million will be transferred into the state's ailing General Fund and $4 million will go into the Education Fund to boost its reserve, Perrault said. The $7 million will likely not be returned to the Education Fund as in years past, Perrault said. We strongly protest the apparent plan underway to raise $11 million in local property taxes above that which is needed to fund payments to the local school districts and supervisory unions and in particular the $7 million that will be transferred to the state’s “ailing” General Fund for several reasons. 1. The State wide property tax will be artificially higher than it should be, again out of control of the local boards. 2. The Administration and the Legislature will be breaking faith with Vermont residents, voters and property tax payers by raising education property taxes for non education expenses. 3. Originally Act 60 stated that payments to funds other than local school districts or supervisory unions would result in the automatic repeal of Act 60. We ask that the Legislature and Administration stay true to its original promise and allow Act 60, Act 68 etal to be repealed if funds are transferred to the General Fund. 4. Because of the complexities of Act 60 etal, many people believe that the local government (select board/school board) is the cause of the high property tax bills. By moving this funding from the Ed fund to the General fund the Administration and the Legislature is trying to hide from the responsibility of presenting a balanced budget and leaving local official’s to be blamed for an additional $7 million of education expenses that are not approved or caused by these boards. We ask that you VOTE NO to any transfer from the Education fund and the use of the state wide property tax for any purpose other than direct payments to supervisory unions and school districts that may be included in any bill that you have the opportunity to vote for. Sincerely, Dover School Board Rich Werner, Chair Laura Sibilia, Vice Chair Traci Alfonso, Clerk Arlene Schertzer Jollene Mahon Dover Selectboard Linda Holland, Chair Colby Dix, Vice Chair Adam Levine Dwayne Coneeny Randy Terk ----------------- Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. [ http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/210850553/direct/01/ ]Sign up now.
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