Complete results were unavailable late Tuesday night for Pittsfield-based School Administrative District 53’s budget amendment to cover teacher retirement costs.
Late Tuesday night, the only town to finish tallying votes was Detroit, where the amendment was approved 48-33.
The previous school budget for SAD 53, which also includes the towns of Burnham and Pittsfield, did not account for teacher retirement costs.
The district’s school board voted in October to cover teacher retirement costs with additional state subsidies.
The cost would not affect residents’ tax bills this year.
The cost of teacher retirement this year is about $95,000. The school district received an additional $100,000 in state subsidy to cover the retirement costs.
The towns voted last year not to budget for teacher retirement costs until the state decided what it would do with them, eventually shifting some of the retirement payments to school districts.
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