Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit’s would-be 2022-23 budget is lighter than in February, and is onto its next step: The district budget meeting, where residents vote on cost centers, is at 6:30 p.m. May 25 in the Chelsea Elementary School gym.
With most of the numbers in, Alna, Westport Island and Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit’s other towns are each looking at about a proposed 3% hike in their share of a $25,665,988 budget for 2022-23, according to Superintendent of Schools Howie.
We all hoped the COVID-19 pandemic – which dominated the news for the second straight year – would end sometime in 2021; however, the end-of-the-year numbers for cases, hospitalizations and deaths have increased to record levels since March 2020.