Our editorial yesterday regarding a Regional School Unit 1 warrant article asking residents whether they want to continue town-by-town referendums may have left the impression that the item was proposed by the RSU 1 board.

It was not. The measure comes from the 2008 state law that consolidated Maine’s school districts.

The law states:

“Following development of the annual regional school unit budget and approval at a regional school unit budget meeting … a referendum must be held in the regional school unit as provided in this section to allow the voters to validate or reject the total budget adopted at the regional school unit budget meeting.

“Every 3 years, the voters in a regional school unit shall consider continued use of the budget validation referendum process. The warrant at the budget validation referendum in the third year following adoption or continuation of the referendum process must include an article by which the voters of the school administrative unit may indicate whether they wish to continue the process for another three years. … A vote to continue retains the process for 3 additional years. A vote to discontinue the process ends its use beginning with the following budget year and prohibits its reconsideration for at least 3 years.”

The vote is Tuesday, June 4.