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Moultonboro has turned into a small Boston Suburb.
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Some of us attended a Moultonborough school board meeting Tuesday. The meeting was different than usual because it was requested to have the school board, selectboard, Capital Improvements Program Committee, Advisory Budget Committee get together to discuss the school board's activity to renovate the schools .... out of the blue. They hired a consultant to tell them what is wrong with the school buildings. They're kicking around a number of $44-$45 million. The school has a declining student population; around 480 "kids" k-12 presently. The buildings, a couple of them, are 20 and 40 years old, I think.
The school board has no clue on a plan. The school board is a separate legal governing body, with it own Wishlist of expenditure's.
You MoBo residents need to plan on attending the annual school district meeting and vote on the warrant articles the school board will submit. That annual meeting is in
March. The town annual meeting is in
May.
The annual school district meeting had about 70 of us that bothered to attend. It lasted all of 8:58 minutes for a $17 million dollar budget! It's on youtube. The town meeting meeting had to be re-scheduled because too many voters showed up to vote on The Hub. The town budget was $10 million.
You'll note that local ed. is part of the tax rate, although the annual
town meeting doesn't vote on those expenditures ... the annual
school meeting voters do. Yes, the same potential voters but voters that attend the school meeting have been under the radar.