{"id":3950,"date":"2026-05-26T18:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/?post_type=referendum&#038;p=3950"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:48:58","slug":"rsu-1-school-budget","status":"publish","type":"referendum","link":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/referendums\/rsu-1-school-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"RSU 1 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bath, Woolwich, Phippsburg and Arrowsic residents could be asked to pay for a $47.6 million school budget that\u2019s up nearly $2 million from the current spending plan, despite several positions being eliminated or going unfilled. If voters approve the school budget in June, the amount raised through taxes would increase by roughly 3% in Arrowsic, 7% in Bath and 9% in Woolwich. Phippsburg would see its contribution decrease by roughly 1%.<\/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=\"XZ9TYMa1cc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2026\/04\/30\/bath-area-school-budget-could-increase-by-nearly-2-million\/\">Bath-area school budget could increase by nearly $2 million<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Bath-area school budget could increase by nearly $2 million&#8221; &#8212; The Portland Press Herald\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2026\/04\/30\/bath-area-school-budget-could-increase-by-nearly-2-million\/embed\/#?secret=COGrgbX9tD#?secret=XZ9TYMa1cc\" data-secret=\"XZ9TYMa1cc\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bath, Woolwich, Phippsburg and Arrowsic residents could be asked to pay for a $47.6 million school budget that\u2019s up nearly $2 million from the current spending plan, despite several positions being eliminated or going unfilled. If voters approve the school budget in June, the amount raised through taxes would increase by roughly 3% in Arrowsic, [&hellip;]<\/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":[1182,1179,1181,1180],"vg_referendum_type":[],"class_list":["post-3950","referendum","type-referendum","status-publish","hentry","vg_scope-local","vg_municipality-arrowsic","vg_municipality-bath","vg_municipality-phippsburg","vg_municipality-woolwich"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/referendums\/3950","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/referendums\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/referendums\/3950\/revisions\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"vg_scope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vg_scope?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"vg_municipality","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vg_municipality?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"vg_referendum_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vg_referendum_type?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}