{"id":3943,"date":"2026-05-26T17:58:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/?post_type=referendum&#038;p=3943"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:38:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:38:55","slug":"msad-75-school-budget","status":"publish","type":"referendum","link":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/referendums\/msad-75-school-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"MSAD 75 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voters in Topsham, Harpswell, Bowdoin and Bowdoinham will be asked to approve a $61.2 million school budget at the ballot box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The School Administrative District 75 budget, adopted by the school board in April, requires the four towns to raise roughly $3 million more from taxes than in previous years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e44e021b wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-4-font-size\">Read more<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-left is-style-short-red\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-portland-press-herald wp-block-embed-the-portland-press-herald\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"9DKSk3qg7V\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2026\/04\/10\/topsham-area-school-board-approves-61-million-budget\/\">Topsham-area school board approves $61 million budget<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Topsham-area school board approves $61 million budget&#8221; &#8212; The Portland Press Herald\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2026\/04\/10\/topsham-area-school-board-approves-61-million-budget\/embed\/#?secret=AHU14Ftfud#?secret=9DKSk3qg7V\" data-secret=\"9DKSk3qg7V\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Topsham, Harpswell, Bowdoin and Bowdoinham will be asked to approve a $61.2 million school budget at the ballot box. The School Administrative District 75 budget, adopted by the school board in April, requires the four towns to raise roughly $3 million more from taxes than in previous years. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"voter_guide_referendum_type":"","voter_guide_referendum_needs":"","voter_guide_referendum_fiscal_impact":"","voter_guide_referendum_effective_if_passed":"","voter_guide_referendum_sponsor":"","voter_guide_referendum_signatures_required":"","voter_guide_referendum_signatures_collected":"","voter_guide_referendum_legislative_action":"","voter_guide_referendum_on_ballot_since":"","voter_guide_referendum_vote_yes_means":"","voter_guide_referendum_vote_no_means":"","_speedyseo_primary_vg_referendum_type":"","footnotes":""},"vg_scope":[899],"vg_municipality":[1174,1175,1173,1172],"vg_referendum_type":[],"class_list":["post-3943","referendum","type-referendum","status-publish","hentry","vg_scope-local","vg_municipality-bowdoin","vg_municipality-bowdoinham","vg_municipality-harpswell","vg_municipality-topsham"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/referendums\/3943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/referendums"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/referendum"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/referendums\/3943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3954,"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/referendums\/3943\/revisions\/3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"vg_scope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vg_scope?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"vg_municipality","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vg_municipality?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"vg_referendum_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vg_referendum_type?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}