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Buckland Select Board Votes Against Both Regional School Operating Assessments

Buckland Select Board votes against regional school assessments and approves $500,000 override ballot question.

Townbrief reporting · Apr 28

Government · Select Board

Select Board Puts $500,000 Override on Ballot

Buckland's Select Board voted unanimously to put a $500,000 Proposition 2½ override on the June 2 ballot to close a widening budget gap.

Townbrief reporting · Apr 14

Government · Select Board

Buckland Corrects Sewer Rate, Faces $300K Gap

Buckland confronts a $300,000 fiscal 2027 deficit as the Select Board weighs a property tax override. The biggest driver is a $296,787 jump in the Mohawk Trail Regional School District assessment, plus a 73 percent, $93,000 spike in health insurance.

Townbrief reporting · Mar 24

Government · Select Board

Select Board adopts purchasing policy, poles plan

Buckland Select Board approved a sustainable purchasing policy and ten new Eversource utility poles, while warning a $288 million Franklin County Technical School building bond could cost the town $275,000 a year.

Townbrief reporting · Mar 10

Government · Select Board

Select Board sets May 5 town meeting

Buckland Select Board set the Annual Town Meeting for May 5 and warned of a possible tax override. Members voted unanimously to call the meeting for May 5 at 6:30 p.m. at Mohawk Trail Regional School and set a March 24 deadline for warrant articles.

Townbrief reporting · Feb 24

Government · Select Board

Select Board accepts librarian's resignation, warns on pay

Buckland's library board warns the town can't afford a benefited librarian after its third departure in five years.

Townbrief reporting · Feb 10

Government · Select Board

Select Board Renews Veterans Services Pact

Buckland Select Board renewed its veterans services pact and backed a modest FRCOG budget hike.

Townbrief reporting · Jan 27

Government · Select Board

Select Board OKs Rec Fee Hikes, Rail-Tie Staging

Buckland's Select Board approved rec fee hikes and conditionally cleared rail-tie staging on town land.

Townbrief reporting · Jan 13