Warrant for District Budget Meeting R.S.U. 68 WARRANT
Warrant for District Budget Meeting of Regional School Unit No. 68
To Wendy Berce, a resident of Regional School Unit No. 68 in the Counties of Piscataquis and Penobscot and State of Maine:
GREETINGS: In the name of the State of Maine, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of Regional School Unit No. 68, in said counties and State, qualified by law to vote in Regional School Unit No. 68 affairs, to meet at SeDoMoCha Middle School, in the Town of Dover-Foxcroft, on the 26th day of May, 2026 at six-thirty o'clock in the evening (6:30 p.m.) and there to act upon the following articles, to wit:
ARTICLE I. To elect a moderator to preside at said meeting.
ARTICLE II. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will be authorized to expend for Regular Instruction.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $9,188,539.00
ARTICLE III. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will be authorized to expend for Special Education.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $2,100,665.00
ARTICLE IV. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will be authorized to expend for Career and Technical Education.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $63,575.00
ARTICLE V. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will be authorized to expend for Other Instruction.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $130,655.00
ARTICLE VI. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will be authorized to expend for Student and Staff Support.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $667,818.00
ARTICLE VII. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will be authorized to expend for System Administration.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $488,976.00
ARTICLE VIII. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will be authorized to expend for School Administration.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $383,643.00
ARTICLE IX. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will be authorized to expend for Transportation. THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $839,144.00
ARTICLE X. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will be authorized to expend for Facilities Maintenance.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $892,576.00
ARTICLE XI. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will be authorized to expend for Debt Service and Other Commitments.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $519,340.00
ARTICLE XII. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will be authorized to expend for All Other Expenditures. THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $0.00
ARTICLE XIII. To see what sum the voters of Regional School Unit No. 68 will appropriate for the total cost of funding public education from pre-kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act and to see what sum the district will raise and assess as each municipality's contribution to the total cost of funding public education from pre-kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act in accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15688:
Statutory Recommendation
Total appropriated Total raised
(by municipality) (district assessments by municipality)
Charleston $1,655,828.61 Charleston $577,953.91
Dover-Foxcroft $8,573,967.21 Dover-Foxcroft $2,510,801.91
Monson $667,866.92 Monson $578,988.84
Sebec $1,135,975.45 Sebec $651,997.50
School District Total Appropriated School District Total Raised
$12,033,638.19 $4,319,742.16
Explanation: The school administrative unit's contribution to the total cost of funding public education from pre-kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act is the amount of money determined by state law to be the minimum amount that the district must raise and assess in order to receive the full amount of state dollars.
ARTICLE XIV. Shall Regional School Unit No. 68 raise and appropriate $857,481.00 in additional local funds, which exceeds the State's Essential Programs and Services allocation model by $857,481.00 as required to fund the budget recommended by the Board of Directors?
The Board of Directors recommends $857,481.00 for additional local funds and gives the following reasons for exceeding the State's Essential Programs and Services funding model by $857,481.00
Explanation: The additional local funds are those locally raised funds over and above the school administrative unit's local contribution to the total cost of funding public education from pre-kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act and local amounts raised for the annual payment on non-state funded debt service that will help achieve the district budget for educational programs.
ARTICLE XV. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will be authorized to expend for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027 from the District's contribution to the total cost of funding public education from pre-kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act, non-state-funded school construction projects, additional local funds for school purposes under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15690 unexpended balances, tuition receipts, state subsidy and other receipts for the support of schools.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $15,274,931.00
ARTICLE XVI. To see if Regional School Unit No. 68 will appropriate $766,844.81 for Adult Education and raise $71,455.66 as the local share; with authorization to expend any additional, incidental, or miscellaneous receipts in the interest and for the well-being of the adult education program that do not require additional tax revenues.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS APPROVAL
ARTICLE XVII. To see if the voters of Regional School Unit No. 68 will allow the Board of Directors to expend any additional, incidental or miscellaneous receipts in the interest and well-being of the Pre-K-12 program and to allow the Board of Directors to transfer unanticipated balances from one account to another.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS APPROVAL
ARTICLE XVIII. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will appropriate from the ending balance of school general operating funds from the 2025-2026 year to establish a reserve for Education Needs.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $0.00
ARTICLE XIX. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will authorize the school board to expend in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027 from the reserve already established for the purpose of Education Needs.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $0.00
ARTICLE XX. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will appropriate from the ending balance of school general operating funds from the 2025-2026 year to establish a reserve for Capital Improvements.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $0.00
ARTICLE XXI. To see what sum Regional School Unit No. 68 will authorize the school board to expend in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027 from the reserve already established for the purpose of Capital Improvements.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS $184,431.00
Given under our hands this 5th day of May, A.D. 2026
Board of Directors of Regional School Unit No. 68
Ryan Buttice Jennifer Chase Megan Dyer Jennifer London Erin McCorrison Michelle Poole Marc Poulin Joel Pratt James Pullen
A true copy of the warrant: ATTEST: A resident of Regional School Unit No. 68
A detailed copy of the budget may be obtained from the Superintendent's Office, 572 Bangor Road, Dover-Foxcroft, Maine 04426
May 15, 2026
