Jim Creighton voted against Conval Ruling bill
ConVal isn’t some distant court case. It involved 18 school districts, including communities in Senate District 8: Antrim, Bennington and Francestown through ConVal; Newport; Claremont; and Charlestown through Fall Mountain.
A Newport taxpayer also joined the Rand litigation challenging inadequate funding and unequal education property tax burdens. Those claims prevailed in Superior Court and are on appeal.
Communities cannot budget themselves into property wealth. Teachers and special education don’t cost less because a town has less taxable property. Instead, those communities must impose higher tax rates for every dollar they raise.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court affirmed that state base adequacy funding was constitutionally insufficient.
This year, HB 1799 offered substantially more state education funding and a study of alternatives to reliance on local property taxes.
Jim Creighton voted to kill it.
He also voted to kill HB 1826, increasing special education aid, and HB 1557, requiring state special education reimbursements to begin at a lower cost threshold.
Three opportunities to help our schools and local property taxpayers. Three votes against.
Now he seeks to represent the communities that went to court seeking relief.
Dave Trumble has traveled to Concord as a private citizen, testifying for greater state responsibility and property tax relief. Compare what they have done to fix school funding. That’s why I support Dave Trumble for NH Senate.