Help Restore Devastating Reductions to Proposed School Budget
🚀 Calling All Milford Residents! Our Schools Are in Dire Need of Your Support!
The Milford Board of Education proposed a 4.392% budget increase to cover essential costs and contractual requirements — a reasonable request in the face of inflation rates (6.5 percent!), a teacher shortage, rising fuel costs, and new state mandates. (Watch the complete budget presentation here to learn more) But on March 15, in a split vote, the Board of Finance voted to allow only a 2.58% increase – slashing $1,844,816 in requested funds.
😱 That leaves our Board of Ed in crisis since they need to meet higher expenses regardless. 😰 What does this mean? Significant cuts to existing staff and valuable programs in our schools.
To put this into perspective a similar budget reduction of 2.2 million in 2010 was a major factor in the closing of Simon Lake Elementary School. We cannot express how much of an impact this will have on our schools. In addition to the threat of losing one of our school buildings, class sizes will definitely increase across the board, and all the progress we have made toward high-quality education, world languages in all grades, career pathways, STEM labs, and more could be wiped away to accommodate a cut this large.
We need your help to safeguard our schools and our district’s tremendous progress.
Here’s the mission: Milford’s Board of Alderman has the power to turn things around with a vote to restore reductions in the proposed education budget. At the budget vote in early May, we need 10 valiant aldermen (a supermajority) 🗳️💪 to vote to approve the full 4.392% budget increase as proposed by the Milford Board of Education
And how much would this measure cost the average homeowner in Milford??? We’re glad you asked. We prepared a chart for you to see for yourself. For someone who owns a home with a median property value of $400,000, you would pay an additional $42 a YEAR in taxes to safeguard high-quality education in Milford. That’s it. (Why are we even talking about this???)
Ready to show your support for education in Milford?
1) Please sign our petition,
2) write letters ✍️ to your aldermen and spread the word! 🌟 If you don’t know what district you are in, click here for a map to find what district you are in.
3) Sign up to be on our list for updates, and invitations to zoom calls, and more.
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