LISBON
The Lisbon School Committee is scheduled to vote on a 2015-16 school budget tonight.
The vote is needed after the budget the town council put before voters was defeated through the budget validation referendum.
The majority of Lisbon voters who rejected the budget indicated through an advisory question on their ballots that it was because the budget was too low.
The school committee meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the Lisbon town office.
The school committee tabled a vote at its June 22 meeting to get more figures, including the increased revenue the Lisbon School Department anticipates following state budget adoptions in Augusta last week, and the proposed budget articles that would go to the town council.
The town council is scheduled to hold a public hearing and vote on the school budget on July 21, and a second budget validation referendum is scheduled for Aug. 11.
The council will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the town office and is scheduled to hear a presentation on the police study it commissioned. Councilors hoped to have the study results prior to adopting a 2015-16 municipal budget. As of Thursday, the town manager had not received a copy of the study.
The new fiscal year begins July 1 and no municipal or school budget has been adopted. As a result, the council will consider approving partial budget expenditures.
The council will consider limiting the expenditure to two-twelfths of the proposed fiscal year 2016 annual school budget that was approved by the council on May 19. That would be spent between July 1 and adoption of the fiscal year 2016 budget.
Similarly, the council will consider authorizing an expenditure of an amount not to exceed one-twelfth of the total proposed fiscal year 2016 general annual fund budget presented by the town manager. That would be spent during the period of July 1 until the adoption of the fiscal year 2016 municipal budget.
The council will also consider voting on a banner policy, awarding paving and striping bids, and awarding the library masonry repair bids.
The 2015-16 waste water treatment plant budget is also up for action Tuesday.
After the regular meeting, the town council will have a workshop on a proposed medical marijuana ordinance and a itinerant vendor ordinance for mass gatherings.
dmoore@timesrecord.com
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