Public Votes On School Budgets Pose Concerns ; the Mechanics and Costs of the New Requirement to Get Resident Approvals Worry Municipal Clerks. Series: Editor's Note This Is One in a Continuing Series of Stories by the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram That Looks at the Implications of Maine's School District Consolidation Law.

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Emil Genest, an assistant school superintendent in Hampden, predicts a new law requiring a ballot vote by residents to approve the school district budget will lead to new transparency in the budgeting process.

But for Nadeen Daniels, the town clerk in Cumberland, the law is a potential nightmare because it provides so little detail about how those referendums will be carried out.

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Public Votes On School Budgets Pose Concerns ; the Mechanics and Costs of the New Requirement to Get Resident Approvals Worry Municipal Clerks. Series: Editor's Note This Is One in a Continuing Series of Stories by the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram That Looks at the Implications of Maine's School District Consolidation Law.

School districts and municipalities across Maine are grappling with a provision of the new school-district consolidation law that requires voters in each district to approve school budgets at the ballot box.

The law is aimed at giving voters greater say and understanding about how their tax dollars are being spent. For some districts, especially those that already require voters to approv...

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