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BY ANDREAS YILMA REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN PROSPECT — The Region 16 Board of Education will look to hold a double referendum at the beginning of next month on the 2023-24 proposed school budget and a new turf field at Woodland Regional High School. School district officials, representing Beac
By Elio Gugliotti, Editor BEACON FALLS — The Region 16 Board of Education on March 31 approved a $40.9 million budget proposal to send to voters, who will have the final say on the spending plan in May. The 2021-22 school budget proposal increases overall spending for the region, which is composed of Beacon Falls and Prospect, by $253,657, or about 0.6%. The board approved sending the budget to a vote by “a show of hands” at a district meeting on May 3 at 7 p.m. at Long River Middle School in Prospect. “We’ve tried to keep our budget aligned to what we believe is important, which is...
By Elio Gugliotti, Editor PROSPECT â Region 16 Board of Education members Feb. 10 debated whether to transfer any more surplus funds to its capital nonrecurring account, but took no action. The school board, which oversees public schools in Beacon Falls and Prospect, finished the 2019-20 fiscal year with a budget surplus of $661,286. Excess school money is returned to the towns in the form of credits on their education payments to the region. The money is divided based on the percentage of students from each town. For the 2019-20 school year, 63.25% of students lived in Prospect and 36.7...