Dylan Doughty will serve as Biddeford’s Ward 4 City Councilor. Contributed / Dylan Doughty
Biddeford voters approved the $47.3 million school budget and elected Dylan Doughty as Ward 4 City Councilor during last week’s election.
The school budget passed with 735 votes in favor and 279 against. It carries a $3.2 million increase from last year, which Superintendent Jeremy Ray said is largely due to Biddeford’s state valuation.
As Biddeford’s valuation, or ability as a community to pay, increases, the budget will continue to be adversely affected, Superintendent Jeremy Ray said.
In addition, Ray said, “There’s always the ever-going need for more capital improvements.”
Driving factors in this year’s budget were increases to salary and benefits, utilities, health insurance and payroll taxes.
Also in Biddeford, newly elected Ward 4 City Councilor Dylan Doughty fills a seat vacated by Bobby Mills earlier this year. He ran unopposed, and received 86 of 99 votes.
An Arkansas native, Doughty graduated from the University of Central Arkansas with a B.S. in Public Relations and received his MBA from Western Colorado University. He currently works for a manufacturing business in Saco.
In the past, Doughty served on the Biddeford Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals. According to his biography statement, Doughty hopes to “work hard to represent Ward 4 to the best of his ability and make a positive impact on the Biddeford community.”
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