Final merger plans look to get under the wire for tax breaks

State Board of Education member John Carroll listens during a recent meeting. File photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDiggerTowns wanting to take school district mergers to voters in time to get tax breaks presented their cases last week at a marathon meeting of the State Board of Education. Unification plans can still be proposed, but they won’t translate into savings for taxpayers, and small-school grants will dry up.
Two towns that said no to separate merger plans in the spring — one because