Templeton Override votes this century, beginning 2000.

March 23, 2000, special Town election.

Shall the Town of Templeton be allowed to assess an additional $565,164.00 in real estate and personal property taxes for the purpose of funding the Narragansett Regional School District operating budget for the Fiscal Year beginning July 1st, 2000?

Passed YES 10122 votes / NO 709 votes

June 11, 2007, special Town election.

. Shall the Town of Templeton be allowed to assess an additional $735,700.00 in real estate and personal property taxes for the purpose of funding the operating budget of the Narragansett Regional School District as assessed by the Narragansett Regional School District for the fiscal year beginning July first, two thousand seven?

PASSED - YES 541 NO 515

October 15, 2013, special Town election.

“Shall the Town of Templeton be allowed to assess an additional $620,000.00 in real estate and personal property taxes for the purpose of funding the general operations of the regional schools and municipal government for the fiscal year beginning July first, two thousand and thirteen?

PASSED YES 961 NO 746

October 2013 special town meeting.

To appropriate monies from the above override vote.

To see if the town will vote to assess an additional $620,000 in real estate and personal property taxes for the purposes of funding the regional schools and municipal government for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013. Submitted by the Board of Selectmen. On a motion duly made and seconded the town voted to that Five Hundred Fifty Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty Nine Dollars ($550,459.00) be raised and appropriated from the 2014 Tax levy and other general revenues of the town (as per the passage of the October 15 ballot question for an override of the limitations of the Proposition Two and One half, so called , ch.54, sc. 29) to be added to the appropriation voted pursuant to Article 27 of the Annual Town Meeting to pay the Town of Templeton’s share of the Narragansett Regional School District budget for Fiscal Year 2014, thus increasing the total FY14 appropriation from $4,430,615.00 to a new total of $4,981,074.00 dollars and that Sixty Nine Thousand, Five Hundred Forty One Dollars, ($69,541.00) be raised and appropriated from the 2014 Tax Levy and other general revenues of the town (as per passage of the October 15 ballot question for an override of the limitations of Proposition Two and One half, so called, ch.54, sc. 29) to be added to the appropriation voted pursuant to Article 9 of the Annual Town Meeting for town charges,

Passed.

May 2018, annual Town elections.

Town general fund override $420,246.00

PASSED yes 722 NO 434

May 2018 annual Town meeting

I move to raise and appropriate the sum of Four Hundred Seventy Thousand Two Hundred Forty Six Dollars and No Cents, ($470,246.00), , for supplemental appropriations to the FY 2019 Operating Budget for the following departments: Fire/EMS $290,740 Police $23,000 Insurance & Benefits $133,890 Highway $15,000 Snow & Ice $7,616.

PASSED.

 In case you are not aware or have forgotten, back in 2022, a process was started to look at the Narragansett Regional School District (NRSD) agreement, which was to see if any changes needed to be made, to be current with state laws and things member towns might like to see in the agreement. about 18 months later, Templeton selectmen did their part and put it to a vote of the people, Town Meeting. Phillipston, the other member town of the NRSD, have so far failed to do their part, put it to the people for a vote, Town Meeting, it is required of the agreement and of state law. How do we have a school assessment when we may not have an agreement that is valid in place? If we go with the 1977 agreement, that covers grades K-12, not grades preK - 12. NRSD is budgeting FY27 PreK - 12. which would line up with a 2004 regional agreement, which is flawed as it never went thru the entire process, it was never forwarded to Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, (DESE).

 Anyone who has ever had a puppy, should understand this, When you first bring one home, you have to pay attention to them and show them the ways of the home. To sit, where to go and not to go, what to leave alone, how to act (socialize) and most importantly, potty train, so they get to understand when it is time to do some business, they let you know and they go to the door, and many other things in their young formative years. So, could it be that much different with a young child. Watching my nephew with his little girl, getting her to walk, eating, talking (eventually) what is okay and what is not and all those things needed to function later, such as in school. So, when the youngsters get to school in the early years, first, second and third grade, from my old memory, that is where I learned letters, how to use them to make words, sentences and then read them and then basic math, all the things I would need later on, once I understood the basics, I could do stuff on my own (with a little, shall I say assistance from dad) so thinking along those lines, why would first grade teachers be the first thing you cut when trying to make budget dollars work? Why not look to later grades such as grades 11 or 12 teacher (s) why not cut vice principals before first grade teachers? My instinct tells me you cut the stuff for the little ones to play the ole tear drop, heart breaker routine to get what you want, that is to keep the whole pie, without sharing. See, that is my opinion and if you agree, fine, if you do not, that is okay too. I have my list and you can have yours.