To find a direct and simple answer to my question of "how much do we pay for our School system and how is that changing from year to year" I have prepared tables which show the actual dollar amounts charged to Mason's taxpayers "NET School cost to taxpayers" for the School Budgets for the 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-2013 school years.

Mason Population Estimates & Projections, 1930 to 2030 from NH OEP (Office of Energy & Planning) (.PDF 28 K)

Mason Population Estimates & Projections, 1930 to 2030 from NH OEP (Office of Energy & Planning) (EXCEL 24 K)

Note: It is my belief that the 1990 Census contained an overcount which inflated Mason's population, and that this error was propagated into OSP's annual population estimates. No way to know for sure, but compare the unanticipated increase in 1990 with the matching decrease in 2000...

Consumer Price Index (CPI-U), 1930 to 2009 from US Dep of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (plus factors to convert to 2009 dollars) (PDF 24 K)

Historical taxation in Mason, 1972 to 2011, in constant 2009 dollars (PDF 64 K) Note: use with caution! The data were hand-entered from old Town Reports and may contain errors. The population figures are NH OEP estimates for all years except those ending in 0 when US Census data is available. Updated December 2011 using average CPI-U Jan to Nov 2011 (official 2011 annual CPI-U won't be available until late Jan 2012)

Graph of Historical taxation in Mason, 1972 to 2011, in constant 2009 dollars (PDF 44 K) which plots separately the County, Town and School taxes

Graph of Historical taxation in Mason, 1972 to 2011, in constant 2009 dollars (PDF 40 K) showing the County, Town and School taxes as deviations from their 1972 to 2009 averages

Historical taxation in Mason, 1972 to 2011, in constant 2009 dollars (EXCEL 28 K) The Excel spreadsheet from which the above 3 PDF files were printed.

Note: If, as suggested above, there was an overcount in the 1990, this would significantly increase actual the $/capita in years 1990 through 1999.

List of Registered Voters, as of December 28, 2011.

I purchased a copy of the official list, current as of 12/28/2011, and then reformatted the information into a format more convenient for me. Note that the following files are not "official" copies and could even contain errors introduced during my reformatting work. If your work requires an official copy you must purchase one from the State through Mason's Supervisors of the Checklist.

Registered Voters, sorted by Name (PDF 132 KB)

Registered Voters, sorted by Street Address (PDF 128 KB)

Excel spreadsheet containing the above lists (.XLS 228 KB)