Seymour To Vote On Town And School Budgets

Seymour residents will vote Thursday on whether to approve new budgets for town government and the school district.

The community center at 20 Pine St. is the polling place. Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Click this link to review budget information posted on the town’s website.

Voters will answer the following yes or no questions:

Should the town government’s budget of $23,217,572 be adopted?

Should the board of education’s budget of $34,158,038 be adopted?

Click here to take a look at a sample ballot.

The combined budgets total $57,375,610. That total is a 2.1 percent increase of the budget currently in place.

However, the tax rate is not increasing, Seymour First Selectman Kurt Miller has said in various interviews with The Valley Indy.

Miller said taxes are not going up because the town’s grand list (a list of taxable properties) has increased.

We’ve been able to absorb the increased costs of day-to-day operations,” Miller said during a video interview in April.

Click play on the video at the top of this story and fast forward to the 8‑minute mark to hear Miller talk about the budget.

The school budget carries a spending increase of about 2.3 percent, according to documents posted on the town’s website. The town side of the budget is increasing about 1.8 percent, Miller said.

The increases include routine costs such as contractual obligations, salaries, and medical benefits.

A house appraised at $150,000 would pay $3,780 if the budgets are adopted, according to the town’s website.

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