Everyone For Norton was formed by members of our Norton community with goals of: 

• Increasing awareness around the budget challenges we face and sharing information through our social media portals, website, and other channels.  During the run-up to the recent override election, that meant breaking down what each budget means with regards to layoffs and impacts to services, a calculator tool to allow residents to estimate the property tax increases for both the $4m and $6.5m overrides, as well as personal impact statements from town employees and residents. There’s a lot of information floating around, and unfortunately some of it was untrue or lacked proper context. We do our best to validate anything we share and cite our sources when doing so. 

• Encouraging voter turnout. Turnout in recent elections and Town Meetings has been disappointingly low. Less than 12% of eligible voters came out for the Annual Town Election this April, with less than 1/2 that many attending our Spring Town Meeting in May.