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09/02/08
(results officiated 09/03/08)
School budget passes
Cape Elizabeth voters overwhelmingly approved a $19.8 million school budget
for 2008-09 in a validation election Sept. 2.
Unofficial results announced by Town Clerk Ruth Noble Tuesday night showed
1,425 voting "Yes" for the 5.3-percent increase in school spending; and 731
voting "No."
In a second, advisory poll, voters were less definitive as to whether they
believed the budget was too high, too low or just right Most, 850,
said it was too high; 717 said it was too low, and 541 said the amount of
increase was "acceptable."
The newly validated school budget will add 55 cents to the Town's tax rate,
bringing the total tax increase to 98 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation,
an increase of 5.98 percent.
The Sept. 2 validation was the third to be held in Cape Elizabeth this summer.
Two previous budgets, one a 4.6 percent increase and one a 6 percent increase,
both failed at polls this summer.
The turnout of 2,162 in the Sept. 2 vote was comparable to that of the July
22 validation, Noble said, approximately 30 percent.
This is the first year that Cape Elizabeth voters have been asked to validate
school spending under the state's new school consolidation law.
Here are the results of the Sept. 2, 2008 school budget
validation:
Do you favor approving the Town of Cape Elizabeth school budget for the upcoming
school year that was adopted at the latest school budget meeting of the town
council?
YES 1,425
NO 731
Advisory Question
I find the school budget adopted at the August 18, 2008 Town Council's school
budget meeting to be:
TOO HIGH 850
ACCEPTABLE 541
TOO LOW 717
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