Holland school: Board hopes budget will pass on second attempt

copyright the Chronicle March 16, 2016

by Joseph Gresser

HOLLAND – The members of the Holland School Board hope that voters armed with a better understanding of the budget they rejected on Town Meeting Day will reconsider their decision.

The school board voted Monday night to ask townspeople to go to the polls on Thursday, April 7, to reconsider spending $963,000 for the town’s elementary school.

Balloting will be preceded by a hearing on the budget scheduled for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5.

Conversation between board members and the seven members of the public who attended Monday’s meeting suggested that misconceptions about how the state calculates tax rates, might have…To read the rest of this article, and all the Chronicle‘s stories, subscribe:

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