GORHAM â Hoping to reduce its proposed 2021-22 budget further, the Gorham Randolph Shelburne Cooperative School Board on Thursday postponed a vote to finalize the budget to its Feb. 16 meeting.
Board members noted the Feb. 16 vote will still be in plenty of time for the annual district meeting scheduled for March 23.Â
Only a handful of mostly local officials attended the boardâs budget hearing at the Gorham Middle High School gym or virtually.
GRS Cooperative Business Administrator Roselle Higgins reported that the total budget including capital items and increased benefit costs is $9.5 million, an increase of $620,867 or 6.9 percent.
For the individual towns in the district the anticipated increase on the tax rate is $3.20 per thousand dollars of assessed valuation for Gorham, $1.52 for Randolph, and $1.73 for Shelburne.Â