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Voters from the towns of Canton, Carthage, Dixfield and Peru approved Tuesday’s Regional School Unit 56 $12.97 million budget for 2021-22 by a vote of 354-163 during their referendum vote on Tuesday.
The tally in each of the towns was: Carthage 27-8, Dixfield 120-35, Canton 84-34 and Peru 123-86.
The district held to “a 0% budget-to-budget increase” from this year’s budget, Superintendent Pam Doyen said at the district’s annual school budget meeting on May 11. During that meeting and vote, residents from the four towns approved all of the 21 articles brought forward.
In Doyen’s comments prior to the May budget meeting vote, she said that although the district kept to no overall increase from this year’s budget, certain increases in some areas such as employee’s salaries were “estimated at about a $155,000 increase.”