Thursday, February 6, 6:30 PM @ Fall Mountain Regional High School Library is the date and time to hear about the school district budget, learn how other voters are feeling and express your opinion. It’s an important meeting because it is the only chance voters have to amend the budget either up or down. This is where you can hear how your vote in March will impact the education of our students as well as your taxes.

In the interest of full disclosure, I am sure you realize that I am a retired educator and a school board member.  I am also a long-time resident of New Hampshire and taxpayer in Walpole. For these reasons, I am hoping we will have a large number of people at the meeting Thursday to hear how hard our administrative team has worked to create a budget that is actually lower than what the Default Budget will be if it is defeated.  I want a big turn-out so people can see what the continued cuts in state aid to our schools is doing to your taxes.  If revenues to our schools go down faster than the budgets can decrease, the net result will continue to be increased property taxes.

See you Thursday – Lil