Voters in Fort Kent school district finally approve budget after rejecting it twice

Voters in Fort Kent school district finally approve budget after rejecting it twice

FORT KENT, Maine — MSAD 27 finally has an approved school budget after voters rejected it twice this year. Voters in the Fort Kent-area school district approved the $16,041,080 budget in a referendum vote Thursday. The district’s first budget was one of at least 16 school budgets that Maine voters rejected in June. The original budget was roughly $16.5 million and would have represented a 6.4% overall increase over last year’s budget, or $429,40…