CHESHIRE, Mass. — A tentative date of Sept. 30 has been set for a districtwide vote on the Hoosac Valley Regional School District's fiscal 2025 budget. 

 

The School Committee on Monday will schedule the vote on Monday and decide whether to resubmit the budget that failed in Cheshire. 

 

Cheshire voters last week rejected a Proposition 2 1/2 override of $150,534 to fund their portion of the budget and passed a motion that would level fund the town's fiscal 2025 school assessment at $2,948,462.

 

Superintendent Aaron Dean told the Adams Board of Selectmen on Wednesday that he presumed the vote would be on Monday, Sept. 30, at 6:30 in the Hoosac Valley High auditorium — and that the budget wouldn't change. 

 

He confirmed that vote would be by all registered voters in the two-town school district, a change from Adams' town meeting member format.

 

"Logistically, if we don't have a budget out of that, then we have until Dec. 1 to work something out, which might require another districtwide meeting between now and then to make that happen," he said. "So I'm hoping at that point in time we come to consensus on the budget, and both the towns can move forward with their spending plans."

 

Cheshire Selectmen are concerned about where the funds will come from if the vote doesn't go their way. The town's population is nearly a third of Adams' and its student enrollment is about 25 percent.