The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-29
SENTIMENT AS TO
CHARTER DIVIDED
Question Concerning TUT
ton for Pupils Not
in District
FEW AT HEARING
LAST EVENING
Some Telegrams Sent to BrattlebOrO Men
i'm Legislature Chairman Gibson OF
Village Commissioners Leaves for
Hearing i'm Montpelier.

Only four persons appeared before the
village commissioners last evening to
discuss the proposed extension of the
Brattleboro village limits, and two of these
favored the plan and two, while objectlng
at first. said later that they would not
seriously oppose the project
Carl s. Hopkins and Frank L. Well
man spoke in favor of an extension, the
latter representing his mother, who owns
property on Western avenue They
thought property owners receiving the
benefit of fire protection ought to be Will
ing to paw their share of the cost.
Christopher Hertzberg and Peter Hop
kins were not in favor of the proposed
extension. on account OF the difference IL
would make in taxes and because there
was no provision whereby parents OF
children in the territory involved would
be relieved of the payment of tuition for
sending those children 10 the schools OF
| the Incorporated school district, although
they would have to pay the village tax.
/ Senator George l.. Dunham asked the
isenate last night in Montpelier for pernis-
/ sion to introduce a bill to amend the vil-
/ lage charter so as to make the desired
extension of the limits. He was given
unanimous consent and introduced the
/ bill. the text of which was published IN
4 The Reformer Yesterday If anyone de-
I
/ tonight in the senate chamber. Judge
/ Gibson left for Montpelier this afternoon.
/ Opposition to the village extension idea
| was expressed yesterday afternoon and
! this morning by several residents OF the
| territory affected by the proposed bill,
and several kilograms protesting its pas
/ sage were sent to Senator Dunham and
| REPRESENTATIVE Barber. The chief OBJ
lection is on the ground that the change
+. contemplates no alteration IN the limits
| of the Incorporated school district. which
at present correspond closely to those OF
the village. and on that account residents
of the section. affected who send then
children to the incorporated district
schools would be obliged TO continue pay
I ing tuition in addition to their town
town school and village taxes.
One Western avenue resident expressed
/ his opinion thus 4 am not opposed tC
consolidation if it Is real consolidation
but under the plan now proposed We ot
the section which would be part Of th'
village but not part of the incorporated
school district would be i'm no better
4 shape than we are now so far as schoo
taxes are concerned. 1t seems to me TIN
only worthwhile plan of consolidation L
one that would actually bring town. vii
lage and school district government
under one head. In my belief, the pro
posed village extension is a step ava,
from unificatiOn. not toward ii.
In commenting on the foregoing objec
tiOnS Chairman Gibson OF the vlllag
commissioners said he understood an.
extension of the village limits would b
) followed by similar extension of the in
: Corporated school district limits. As {
the village limit extension, he said h
could see nothing unfair about IT. |
would simply mean he added, that resi-
, dents of the Western avenue sectiol
would have to pay for fire and police pre-
, lection which the village now extend
, them for nothing.
Relative to the tuition matter. AttoI
ncy A. T. Schwenk of the prudential con
mittce of the incorporated school distriC
SAYS the law provides that the limits Q
the school district could be extended b
vote without legislative action. To brin
that about it would be necessary to il
Sert an article in the warrant for the al
nual school meeting to take action on til
question If the lines of both the vi
lage and school district were extended |
- correspond there would be no necesSit
a for paving tuition for pupils living With
q those limits.