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The town has already collected $4 million of a possible $13 million in extra money hidden from the budget process.
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School Surpluses in a Political Scene with No Memory
Watching government and politics in Tiverton — probably like every smallish town — can be frustrating. At the state level or in a large city, more people are paying close attention, including a larger number of journalists, which creates a sort of community memory... or at least enough fear of one that the excuses of the past won't be recycled after somebody exposes them. With the ever-growing surplus fund of Tiverton's school department, though, the same talking point comes back year after year. Despite promises all last winter and spring that the school committee was going to spend the $3,454,163 that it's holding in its account, the Tiverton school department ended the year with $4,429,210. That's a 28% increase. And here come the talking points, as reported in the Newport Daily News by Marcia Pobzeznik: School Committee Chairman Jerome Larkin was at the meeting and told the council that budget increases for the School Department have been “modest” over the past five years and all capital items have been paid out of the reserve account for the past six years, including some pricey projects like a septic system that serves the high school, middle school and Ranger Elementary School. ... The septic system that had to be installed a few years ago to replace a failing wastewater plant at the high school cost $750,000 and was paid for from the reserve account, said School Committee Vice Chairwoman Sally Black. “We didn’t ask the town for any money,” for the project, she…
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