SEYMOUR — Voters are scheduled to head to the polls for a second time on Thursday, May 16 to decide the fate of the Seymour town and school budgets.
The Seymour Community Center on Pine Street is the polling location.
Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The combined budgets total $66.4 million.
The proposed mill rate is 36.84 mills. That’s a .88 mill increase over the current mill rate of 35.98.
On May 2 voters rejected a budget that carried a mill rate of 37.25.
A single-family house on 4 acres on Bungay Road assessed at $213,360 would pay $183 more in taxes next year. Under the budget rejected on May 2, they would’ve paid $271 more in taxes.
A single-family house on .28 acres on Wood Street assessed at $139,720 would pay $120 more in taxes next year (as opposed to $171 under the budget rejected on May 2).
The revised budget allocates $26.6 million for the town side of the budget and $39.7 million for the Seymour Board of Education.
