Littleton Joint Boards Hear Shaker Lane Tax Impact Cut to $719 First Year

LITTLETON — September 2, 2025 — Littleton joint boards hear Shaker Lane school first-year tax impact fall to $719 annually. The Finance Committee, Select Board, School Committee, and Shaker Lane School Building Committee met September 2 to review final project financials after the Massachusetts School Building Authority locked in a $38.2 million grant — up from a $29.4 million estimate — at its August 27 Board of Directors meeting, driving the net town bond down to approximately $50.7 million over 20 years. The first-year property tax impact on the FY25 average Littleton home of $694,868 is $719.20, declining to $122.58 in year 20, with a total 20-year cumulative cost to the average homeowner of just under $12,000. The alternative — a building-code upgrade costing an estimated $56 million on a 10-year bond — carries a $1,494 first-year impact and would not solve the school's 36,000-square-foot space shortfall. Annalise Taber, chair of the Yes for Littleton ballot question committee, told the boards a postcard campaign is being mailed to all Littleton residences, while a resident identified only by his Juniper Road address warned that a vote held that night would fail and urged officials to focus outreach on the November 1 ballot electorate rather than the October 28 town meeting crowd.