SECOND SEYMOUR BUDGET VOTE IS THURSDAY, MAY 15

Seymour residents will go to the polls Thursday, May 15 to accept or reject the 2014 – 2015 town and school budgets.

Basic info:

WHAT:
Second Seymour budget vote

WHEN:
Thursday, May 15
6 a.m. – 8 p.m.

WHERE:
Community Center
20 Pine St.

MILL RATE:
.81 increase
From 33.23 to 34.04

WHATS THAT MEAN?
$85 more in taxes for a single-family property assessed at $105,000

SCHOOL BUDGET:
$31,730,447

TOWN BUDGET
$22,660,827

Whaddya mean, second vote?’
Voters rejected both budgets May 1. That budget would have added 1.15 mills to the mill rate. The school budget request was roughly $31.8 million and the town request was $22.8 million during the first vote. Voters are now looking at a spending plan roughly $410,000 smaller than the failed May 1 budget.

How’d they trim it?
Revised health insurance figures, state aid, more info here.

Voting is scary. I wish I had a sample ballot.
No problem. Click here.

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