SCARBOROUGH — The FY22 school budget referendum election is taking place on June 15 at Scarborough High School, 11 Municipal Drive, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., but absentee voting is also an option.

According to the FY22 proposed school budget summary, the education net budget is currently proposed at $50.3 million, or a 3.56 percent increase from last year’s budget of $48.5 million.

“Since the presentation of the budget, the Board of Education has reduced the school tax request by $1,140,678 through a series of budget adjustments involving expenditure and capital reductions and increases in revenue,” said a newsletter from the town of Scarborough.

Absentee voting on the budget began on May 17 at the Public Safety Building at 275 U.S. Route 1 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, said the town of Scarborough.

People can visit scarboroughmaine.org/departments/town-clerk/elections for information about how to vote absentee.

For those who wish to vote on June 15, social distancing measures will be in place, according to the Town Clerk’s Office.

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“CDC Guidelines will still be in place,” the town said. “At this time masks will be required inside the polling place; six foot distance between voters; limit of 50 people at a time in the polling place; sanitizing stations available, etc. We would encourage you to vote by absentee ballot.”

On May 5, the Town Council held a public hearing on the school budget proposal, but there were no commenters present.

Finance Committee Chair John Cloutier said that on the municipal side of the budget, the committee has been working through a detailed itemization of town departments and has a target of adding 3 percent or lower to the mil rate this year.

“Things have trended pretty favorably towards actually achieving our goal of a 3 percent or lower mil rate target,” he said.

The town has a budget portal with the FY22 proposed municipal budget as presented on April 7, which can be found at: budget.scarboroughmaine.org/town-budget/fy2022-budget.

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