ROCKPORT — After months of closed door meetings, consultations with attorneys and finally, mediation with Duward Parkinson, the towns of…
#sad28-schoolfunding
ROCKPORT — Keeping mum, but confirming that they did meet March 1 as scheduled, the municipal and school attorneys, as well as school superintendent and town managers, convened with a mediator to…
Fifteen years ago, the tables were switched with Camden paying more than its share; never compensated
CAMDEN — Any problem-solving initiatives concerning Rockport’s overpayments to the Camden-Rockport K-8 public school system over the past decade have yet to be publicly discussed.
Most…
ROCKPORT — An intervention from the town of Rockport’s legal counsel, Monday night, Oct. 26, put an abrupt end to an impromptu workshop between members of the Rockport Select Board and…
Meeting this evening: Bonuses, setting goals, Next year’s budget
ROCKPORT — The Select Board in Rockport has a fairly short agenda this evening, Oct. 26, but a long list of targeted questions for the Rockport representatives to the three School Administrative…
‘I want it to come to the table’
CAMDEN — Maria Libby, Superintendent of School Administrative District (Camden-Rockport K-8), hopes to sit with Camden and Rockport town managers and talk about resolving the fiscal mistakes that…
‘It was a failure to carry out the school district’s most basic operational functions....’
ROCKPORT — The Rockport Select Board convenes Sept. 28 for a regularly scheduled meeting. In the board packet, which…
Letter to the editor: Maria Libby
I was dismayed to read the comments of Rockport Select Board Chair Debra Hall on Monday regarding the cost sharing issue that has recently been brought to light where she suggested that the…
Forensics begin on annual budgets going back 11 years
ROCKPORT — With a lawsuit filed in Knox County Superior Court by one town against its own school district, as well as a neighboring town, open discussions about what happens next are being muted…
requests court to order reimbursement or credit for all Rockport school overpayments, with interest
ROCKPORT — Following up on a unanimous Aug. 19 Select Board vote, the Town of Rockport has filed a suit in Knox County Superior Court against the school district that educates its students, and…
ROCKPORT — Property owners in Rockport are due to see their 2020-2021 tax bills next week, and the mil rate, after several years of increases, has dropped.
According…
Camden, Rockport tax bills to reflect this year’s equalization of payments
CAMDEN/ROCKPORT — Property tax bills are being sent out this week in Camden, reflecting a mil rate of $15.03 per $1,000 of valuation. Included in the tax bills is the recalculated Camden-Rockport…
Complicated cost sharing formulas to get scrutinized by third party
CAMDEN/ROCKPORT — When School Administrative District 28 Superintendent Maria Libby informed the town managers of Camden and Rockport about the overpayment of Rockport’s school funding share, the…
District determined that Rockport has paid more than its share
Rockport over-billed by Camden-Rockport school district for at least nine years, Superintendent says
CAMDEN/ROCKPORT – Today, Aug. 3, School Administrative District 28 Superintendent Maria Libby said the cost-sharing formula used for levying taxes on Camden and Rockport property owners to keep…
