WSESD Amendment Vote Results By Town – November 19, 2019

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019 – AMENDMENT VOTE RESULTS BY TOWN

Question 1 – Amend Article 11 – Board Representation

Yes, No, Blank

Brattleboro: 310, 36, –

Dummerston: 56, 129, –

Guilford: 45, 47, 1

Putney: 56, 137, 2

TOTAL: 467, 349, 3

Question 2 – Amend Article 3 – Restructuring of Grade Configurations

Yes, No, Blank

Brattleboro:  219, 119, –

Dummerston:  158, 26, 1

Guilford:  75, 17,  1

Putney:  171, 24, –

TOTAL: 623, 186, 2

Question 3 – Amend Article 4 – Closure of School Buildings

Yes, No, Blank

Brattleboro:  222, 118, –

Dummerston:  159, 25, 1

Guilford: 82, 10, 1

Putney: 171, 23, 1

TOTAL : 634, 176, 3

Question 4 – Add Article 15 – Leadership Councils

Yes, No, Blank

Brattleboro:  305, 37, –

Dummerston:  163, 21, 1

Guilford:  85, 8, –

Putney:  181, 14, –

TOTAL:   734, 80, 1

 

Attest: Barbara D. Nowakowski /s/

Windham Southeast School District Clerk

November 20, 2019

Comments | 3

  • Submitted by cgrotke on November 20, 2019 at 5:39 pm

    Interesting result

    Question 1 – all towns other than Brattleboro (3/4) say NO. It passes.

  • Submitted by ADavis on November 20, 2019 at 11:09 pm

    WSESD results

    The result is ‘interesting’ when parsed by individual town results. However, one feature of the merged district is that votes are co-mingled among the towns. The overall popular vote supports the increase of the board by two additional seats. This board needs more members because the work load is way too much for the present size of the board.

    With a total population of the four town district of about 18,700 the number of seats is not determined by proportional representation. Brattleboro, 12,000. Guilford, 2,100. Dummerston, 1,800. Putney, 2,800. Adding 2 more Brattleboro seats is reasonable.

    Articles #2 and #3 provide additional safeguards for the interests of the smaller towns.

    • Submitted by cgrotke on November 21, 2019 at 9:08 am

      Co-mingling

      Adding more seats is reasonable – according to Brattleboro. : )

      I found it interesting that in the first vote out of the gate, the large town outvoted the others to make itself even larger, and am curious to see (going forward) how often this sort of result occurs. Is it a fluke, or will Brattleboro often “overrule” neighbors?

      Also interesting – the highest YES combined total was for the Leadership Councils. This seems very much desired.

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