Tonight at 7:30 p.m., the District 18 Board of Education hosts a public hearing in the Lyme-Old Lyme HIGH SCHOOL auditorium on their proposed budget of $31,963,401 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015 as recommended by the board. The proposed budget reflects a 0.7 percent increase over the current budget with just over three-quarters of a percentage point of the increase made up of debt service on the high school renovation. The remainder of the increase is accounted for by changes in programs and operations through out the district.
The budget is split between the two towns according to enrollment with Old Lyme being responsible for 79.1 percent of the total while Lyme pays for the remaining 20.9 percent.
Click to view options for reading the Region 18 Budget Book online.
A district-wide referendum on the budget will be held tomorrow in both Lyme and Old Lyme between the hours of 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. Voting will take place at Cross Lane Firehouse for Old Lyme residents and Hamburg Firehouse for Lyme residents.
The individual town results will be announced at the respective polling stations shortly after 8 p.m. and published on LymeLine within minutes of their announcement. The final result reflects the combined tallies from both towns.
Regular board of selectmen’s meetings are also scheduled for today with Lyme’s starting at 3:30 p.m. at Lyme Town Hall and Old Lyme’s commencing at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Town Hall.