NORTHPORT — Voters in the Town of Northport will be voting Monday, June 7 on a proposed school budget for the Edna Drinkwater School. 

ARTICLE 34. To see what sum the Northport School Department will be authorized to expend for Regular Instruction. School Committee Recommends $1,750,217

ARTICLE 35. To see what sum the Northport School Department will be authorized to expend for Special Education. School Committee Recommends $547,017

ARTICLE 36. To see what sum the Northport School Department will be authorized to expend for Other Instruction. School Committee Recommends $41,715

ARTICLE 37. To see what sum the Northport School Department will be authorized to expend for Student and Staff Support. School Committee Recommends $163,298

ARTICLE 38. To see what sum the Northport School Department will be authorized to expend for System Administration. School Committee Recommends $153,851

ARTICLE 39. To see what sum the Northport School Department will be authorized to expend for School Administration. School Committee Recommends $202,108

ARTICLE 40. To see what sum the Northport School Department will be authorized to expend for Transportation and Buses. School Committee Recommends $159,888

ARTICLE 41. To see what sum the Northport School Department will be authorized to expend for Facilities Maintenance. School Committee Recommends $225,429

ARTICLE 42. To see what sum the Northport School Department will be authorized to expend for Debt Service and Other Commitments. School Committee Recommends $305,859

ARTICLE 43. To see what sum the Northport School Department will be authorized to expend for Food Service Transfers. School Committee Recommends $73,008

ARTICLE 44. To see what sum the Town of Northport will appropriate for the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act (School Committee Recommends $2,000,365.21) and to see what sum the municipality will raise as the municipality’s contribution to the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act in accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15688. School Committee Recommends $1,801,782.64.

ARTICLE 45. To see what sum the Town of Northport will raise and appropriate for the annual payments on debt service previously approved by the legislative body for non-state-funded school construction projects, or non-state-funded portions of school construction projects in addition to the funds appropriated as the local share of the school administrative unit’s contribution to the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12. School Committee Recommends $254,244; Explanation: Non-state-funded debt service is the amount of money needed for the annual payments on the municipality’s long-term debt for major capital school construction projects at the Edna Drinkwater School and Northport’s share of long-term debt for major capital school construction projects in RSU 71(previously MSAD 34) that are not approved for state subsidy. The bonding of this long-term debt was previously approved by the voters.

ARTICLE 46. Shall the Town of Northport raise and appropriate $1,067,757 in additional local funds, which exceeds the State’s Essential Programs and Services allocation model by $1,067,757 as required to fund the budget recommended by the School Committee?

ARTICLE 47. To see what sum the Town of Northport will authorize the Northport School Committee to expend for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021 and ending June 30, 2022 from the Town of Northport’s contribution to the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act, non-state-funded school construction projects, additional local funds for school purposes under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15690, unexpended balances, tuition receipts, state subsidy and other receipts for the support of schools. School Committee Recommends $3,622,390.

ARTICLE 48. Shall the School Committee be authorized to transfer up to $20,000 from unexpended balances to the Regular Instruction Reserve Account and to expend said Reserve for the purpose that such Reserve was created, in an amount not to exceed $50,000 for the 2021-2022 school year?

ARTICLE 49. Shall the School Committee be authorized to expend in an amount not to exceed the current balance as stated above for Special Education, Fuel Cost Stabilization, Food Service and Capital Maintenance Reserve Accounts for the purpose that such Reserves were created, for the 2021-2022 school year?

ARTICLE 50. Shall the School Committee be authorized to expend other sums as may be received from federal and state grants or programs or other sources during the fiscal year for school purposes, provided that such grants, programs or other sources do not require the expenditure of other funds not previously appropriated.

ARTICLE 51. Shall the School Committee be authorized to transfer an excess of 5% between cost centers, not to exceed the total spending allocation for the 2021-2022 school year, to balance accounts.