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Lebanon School Board race is a battle over district’s direction
Lebanon school board candidates up for election on March 9, 2021, are top row from left: Renee DePalo, Joshua Flanders, Stephen Kantor, Lilian Maughan, Barbara Patterson and Lisa Vallejo Sorensen. Not pictured is candidate Jason Gillespie. (Courtesy photographs)
Renee DePalo (Courtesy photograph)
Modified: 2/27/2021 10:12:37 PM
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LEBANON Candidates running to replace three outgoing members of the Lebanon School Board are divided over the district’s future priorities.
One group wants to see the city’s aging school buildings upgraded and a high value placed on new programs and services for Lebanon’s 1,600 students. Meanwhile, another trio say they wants to provide children with a quality education, but one that doesn’t come at the cost of overburdening lower-income and elderly households.
Lebanon City Council approves annual budget with 2.4% tax increase
Modified: 12/17/2020 9:33:40 PM
LEBANON The City Council approved a $61.1 million budget for the coming year that preserves the energy and facilities manager position championed by sustainability advocates that had been in danger of being eliminated.
The spending plan will come as a disappointment to those calling for sweeping changes to how Lebanon allocates its tax dollars.
Groups proposing that the city to either drastically curtail police spending or cut taxes were equally rebuffed during a roughly 4½-hour meeting Wednesday night.
About two dozen speakers argued for their priorities to make it into the 2021 budget, from calls to maintain funds for an upcoming library renovation to lamentations that property taxes are pushing residents to look for homes elsewhere.
Jim Kenyon: Tax time triggers a tempest in Lebanon
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Modified: 12/12/2020 10:42:51 PM
About 230 Lebanon residents have signed a petition calling for the city to “mandate vigorous fiscal restraint going forward in 2021.”
In other words, folks are steamed about their rising property tax bills the second biannual installment for 2020 came due earlier this month and want the city to start spending less on (fill in the blank). The petitioners argue that if Lebanon doesn’t change its spending habits, the city risks pricing older residents out of their homes and impeding working-class families from moving in.