RSU 22 Voters Approve 2017-18 Budget with Increased State Subsidy
August 2017 • Link-22 • RSU 22POSTAL - Hampden-Newburgh-Winterport-Frankfort PATRON ECRWSS • Page 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NONPROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID HAMPDEN, ME PERMIT NO. 2 RSU 22 • Hampden • Newburgh • Winterport • Frankfort 24 Main Road North, Hampden, ME 04444 August 2017 HA recognized at National JCL convention RSU 22 voters approve The Junior Classical League 2017-18 budget with (JCL) of Hamp- den Academy increased state subsidy received sev- eral honors at in August 1 referendum the National RSU 22 voters have approved the 2017-18 budget at the dis- JCL convention, trict Budget Validation Referendum on Tuesday, August 1. which was held The vote was 397 for the budget and 328 against. July 24-29 at Voters in all four RSU 22 communities supported the budget. Troy University The vote tallies were: Hampden, 249-230; Newburgh, 47-24; Win- in Troy, AL. terport, 84-68; and Frankfort, 17-6. Five Hampden The second referendum was needed because voters rejected Academy students the original 2017-18 budget at the first referendum on June 13, attended the con- 710 to 637. vention, including Hampden Academy Junior Classical League representatives at the Na- The original budget was published and approved at the Dis- Andrew Terry, trict Budget Meeting before the Legislature had approved its fi- Molly Swalec, tional JCL Convention—Front row (l. to r.): Audrie French, Noah Burby, and Aidan Babbitt. Back row: Molly Swalec, faculty advisor Ben John- nal appropriations for school funding. The original RSU 22 bud- Audrie French, son, and Andrew Terry. get included only $18.1 million in state subsidy; the final RSU 22 Noah Burby, and subsidy figure was $18.7 million, an increase of $566,000.
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