Surprised?

When voters in Georgia go to the polls, they will find an unusual scenario: a proposed school budget that would go down — by 1.22 percent — yet still trigger a substantial school-tax increase of an estimated 6.2 percent.

Georgia is not alone among Vermont communities in this situation. The proposed school budget in neighboring Fairfax would go down 0.01 percent — while raising school taxes 8.7 percent. In Chittenden County, school budgets proposed in Charlotte, Hinesburg, Shelburne and Williston are roughly level or decreasing, but taxes would go up 5 percent or more. Communities in Addison County, Grand Isle and other parts of the state also are feeling the pinch.
    Freeps

This may be news but it shouldn't come as a surprise.  It certainly didn't catch followers of Hugh Kemper's work unaware.  Nor readers of Art Woolf who was predicting this outcome almost from the day Act 60 became law. 

Watch this site, beginning tomorrow, to learn how we got here and what can be done. 

It will be surprising.  

Guaranteed.

Comments

[GreggB]

At least it is fair. It's all about fairness for the children.

[Mary Gerdt]

It is not fair when the children's parents, grandparents are forced from homes because of the "property taxes". I call it rent, the $500+ a month I am charged to live in a run down old farmhouse this family owned for over a hundred years. And when the town tried to sell my property to pay for kids to go to school, I saw the darkest side of Act 60. People can vote in wonderful schools. And someone loses their home and their dignity.