If you do one thing, search/google 603 CMR 41.00 and then read 41.05 and learn about regional school budgeting. It provides information to aid in what you vote for and how you vote.

41.05: Regional School District Budgets

(1) Initial Adoption by the School Committee.

(a) The regional school committee shall propose a budget containing all proposed operating expenditures, transportation expenditures, capital expenditures, and debt service payments to be paid from general revenues of the regional school district. The budget shall be classified into such line-items as the regional school committee shall determine, provided that such line-items shall be consistent with but need not be to the same level of detail as the chart of accounts required for the end of year reporting of expenditures pursuant to 603 CMR 10.03(3).

Initial Action by the Local Appropriating Authorities.

(a) The budget as adopted by the regional school committee and the member's assessment as certified by the treasurer of the regional school district shall be placed before each member's local appropriating authority for its consideration. Notwithstanding provisions in the regional agreement to the contrary, approval of the budget shall require an affirmative vote of the local appropriating authorities of two-thirds of the members. A vote by the local appropriating authority to appropriate the member's assessment shall constitute approval of the regional school district's budget.

If a local appropriating authority votes to appropriate a lower amount than the assessment as certified by the treasurer of the regional school district, such vote shall not constitute approval of the budget as submitted by the regional school committee. The regional school committee may consider such votes when it reconsiders the budget pursuant to 603 CMR 41.05(3).

Reconsideration of Rejected Budgets.

(a) If the budget is not approved in accordance with 603 CMR 41.05(2), the regional school committee shall have 30 days from the date of disapproval to reconsider, amend, and adopt a revised budget. With the approval of the Commissioner, this 30-day period may be extended an additional 15 days. Where the local appropriating authority is town meeting and the annual town meeting is dissolved prior to voting on the budget, the budget shall be deemed disapproved by that member as of the date of such dissolution.

(b) The revised budget adopted by the regional school committee and the assessments corresponding to such budget may be less than, equal to, or greater than the amounts in the previously adopted budget.

In a regional school district comprised of two members, if the revised budget is not approved by the local appropriating authorities of both members, the regional school committee shall again reconsider, amend, and adopt a revised budget and shall convene a district-wide meeting in accordance with M.G.L. c. 71, § 16B, at which the revised budget shall be placed before all voters eligible to vote at said meeting. If a majority of voters at this district-wide meeting votes to approve the revised budget, such vote shall constitute approval. If a majority of voters at this district-wide meeting votes to approve a greater or lesser amount for the budget, such amount shall be placed before the regional school committee. If the regional school committee by a two-thirds vote of the full committee ratifies such amount, it shall constitute approval. If the regional school committee rejects such amount, it shall again reconsider, amend, and adopt a revised budget and shall reconvene a district-wide meeting pursuant to the provisions of this section 603 CMR 41.05(3)(f).

Establishment of Budgets by the Commissioner.

(a) If the annual budget for a regional school district has not been approved by July 1, the superintendent of schools shall notify the Commissioner, and the Commissioner shall establish an interim monthly budget for the regional school district. The interim monthly budget shall be one-twelfth of the regional school district's budget for the prior fiscal year or such higher amount as the Commissioner may determine. The interim monthly budget shall remain in effect until a budget is approved pursuant to 603 CMR 41.05(3) or December 1, whichever comes earlier.