The total budget is $24,082,474, up $1,244,351 over this year. Lanesborough s assessment under the proposed budget stands at $5,876,831, a hike of $114,995 from last year s $5.7 million school bill. The town is responsible for the cost of operating Lanesborough Elementary School and is assessed its share of Mount Greylock Regional School. The elementary school s budget is $4,628,377, up about $400,000, and the high and middle school is $12,006,635, up about $60,000. The capital apportionment is $466,541, down $120,051 from this year. Superintendent Jason McCandless told the Select Board and Finance Committee that the budget is focused on the recovery of a historically difficult year and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
That was the bottom line takeaway last week when Town Manager Jason Hoch presented the FY22 budget to the town s Finance Committee. What is unknown at this point is the size of an increase in the assessment from the Mount Greylock Regional School District. Total education outlays (which includes a much smaller assessment from McCann Tech) accounts for about 52 percent of the revenue raised by property taxes in FY21. One day after Hoch s presentation to the Fin Comm, the Mount Greylock School Committee heard from the administration that it will be proposing a budget that seeks 1.67 percent more from Williamstown in the coming fiscal year.
On Thursday, the School Committee held its annual public hearing on the budget. In year s past, that has been the night the panel votes to approve the spending plan it will send to member towns Lanesborough and Williamstown with the property tax assessments voters will consider at their respective annual town meetings. I m going to keep on saying draft, draft, draft all night long because this is a work in progress, Business Administrator Joe Bergeron said in presenting the budget to the board. As recently as March 3, the district told the Williamstown Finance Committee that it would be ready with final budget numbers for the Fin Comm to review at its March 17 meeting.
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Those were two of the takeaways from a presentation to the town s Finance Committee on Wednesday. Mount Greylock Superintendent Jason McCandless and Business Manager Joe Bergeron met virtually with the town panel not to discuss specifics of the FY22 budget the district is formulating but to discuss some of the inputs that help build that budget. Bergeron did not provide any specifics about the planned budget for the three-school district or its impact to property taxpayers in Lanesborough and Williamstown. He said those numbers would not be finalized until next week when the School Committee holds its annual public hearing on the budget.