Departing Marblehead Superintendent Predicts Override

MARBLEHEAD, MA — The Marblehead school committee approved a $41.5 million budget Wednesday that now heads to town meeting for final approval.

While the committee was able to balance the budget in a year made especially difficult by the coronavirus and the uncertainty in state aide. But interim superintendent William McAlduff, who steps down at the end of the month, predicted future budget balancing would likely require a town vote to override Proposition 2 1/2, which bars towns from rasing taxes more than 2.5 percent per year without voter approval.

"There has been talk now of more than a year, and probably before that, of a potential override, that day is coming, in my opinion," McAlduff told Wicked Local marblehead, which first reported this story.

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