For the school board, the administration and taxpayers who pay the bills, the announcement of a potential 40 percent increase in health insurance premiums couldn’t have come at a worse time. With school and town budgets up and homeowners reeling from the recent property revaluation, voters on Tuesday may have little patience for another big tax hike.

SAU 9 Superintendent Aimee Freschette this week said she and SAU 9 Business Manager Mike Wade “spent 90 percent of the day furiously writing an RFP to put our insurance out to bid.”

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John Willie
John Willie

Teacher salaries are way above the area average of everyday workers.

They can pay their own insurance increases.

The burden of faults of the school board, or lack of planning and thinking ahead, should not fall on the shoulders of the tax payers.

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