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Article: Deer Isle, Stonington school budget up for vote
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- June 7, 2006
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DEER ISLE - Island residents will set the school budget when they
gather for the annual Deer Isle-Stonington Community School District
budget meeting on Thursday.
The meeting to vote on the $6 million budget will begin at 6:30
p.m. at the elementary school.
The gross budget figure of $6,072,071 represents an increase of
$119,134 from the current budget, according to Superintendent Robert
Webster.
As in most budgets these days, the bulk of the increases stems
from increasing energy costs - electricity, bus fuel and heating oil -
and from contracted increases in salaries and benefits, Webster said.
The budget also includes some staff restructuring.
"We eliminated two special education ...