Article: Voters may abandon town meeting for deciding school budget ; Cumberland and North Yarmouth debate moving the education spending decision to the polls.

TESS NACELEWICZ Staff Writer
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
04-24-2005
Voters may abandon town meeting for deciding school budget ; Cumberland and North Yarmouth debate moving the education spending decision to the polls.
Byline: TESS NACELEWICZ Staff Writer
Edition: FINAL
Section: Maine & New England

Each spring, residents of the Cumberland/North Yarmouth school district vote on their school budget at a town meeting-style meeting. But the meeting is held in the evening, and can take so long that some residents have to go home to bed before they get to vote.

That's one of the major reasons 1,700 residents of School Administrative District 51 last fall signed a petition calling for the ...

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