LATEST RAPACIOUS WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT OUTRAGE—IT NOW SEEKS A 5% BUDGET INCREASE FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR, DRIVING STERLING, PAXTON, AND PRINCETON TOWARD PROPOSITION 2 ½ PROPERTY TAX OVERRIDE TERRITORY

As the outright cowardly BUFFOONS constituting the Sterling Select Board, the Select Boards in the other four WRSD towns, and the Finance Committees in the other four WRSD towns sit around with their thumbs stuck firmly up their asses, the utterly despicable and contemptible WRSD Superintendent Reilly and WRSD Committee members plan to jump their previous 4.5% budget increase proposal for next fiscal year to 5%. That increase will push Sterling, Paxton and Princeton toward or into Proposition 2 ½ property tax override territory. Reilly and the WRSD Committee members are tax-fattened hyenas preying on the utter weakness and stupidity displayed over years by the afore-mentioned town-level boards and committees. Unfortunately, the District property taxpayers end up getting shafted on their account.

Here in Sterling two Mass.Gen.Laws Ch. 39, Sec. 10 voters’ Petitions for Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles to confront the absolutely rapacious WRSD are circulating for signatures, and on 1 February 2025 those were provided as templates to potential allies in Paxton and Princeton. Let’s hope the folks in those two towns finally smarten up to protect themselves and all District taxpayers from fleecing by the out-of-control WRSD.

Stay tuned.

J.G.