Hampden school district given deadline to spend $2M of surplus

Hampden school district given deadline to spend $2M of surplus

After years of public backlash, a Greater Bangor school district is now required to spend millions of dollars of surplus funds. Regional School Unit 22, which oversees Hampden, Newburgh, Winterport and Frankfort, has to spend over $2 million of unallocated funds — money that isn’t designated for a specific department to use — in the next three years. How and what the money will be spent will be decided by the school’s budget committee, Superinte…