November 4th is Election Day in Berkshire Hills Regional School District: All You Need To Know
Tuesday, November 4th is Election Day in Great Barrington, Stockbridge and West Stockbridge, with polls open from 11 am to 7 pm. Voters will have two separate questions and two separate ballots on which to vote YES or NO. Question one will be a district-wide vote, counted in aggregate. Question 2 will be a town-by-town vote.
Question 1: Approval of funds
Question 1 is the district ballot, asking voters to vote yes or no on the proposal put forward by the BHRSD School Committee for the construction of a new high school building.
It will ask residents:
“Do you approve of the vote of the Regional District School Committee of the Berkshire Hills Regional School District, adopted on September 11, 2025, to authorize the borrowing of $152,067,064 to pay costs of designing, constructing, originally equipping and furnishing a new District high school to be located at 600 Stockbridge Road in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, including the payment of all costs incidental or related thereto, which vote provides, in part, as follows:”
The full text of the vote undertaken by the BHRSD School Committee on September 11th 2025 to approve the vote will follow, with “yes” and “no” boxes below.
A yes vote is a vote to approve the District’s proposal as presented.
A no vote is a vote to reject the District’s proposal as presented.
Please note that the ballot question will include the TOTAL amount of money for a new high school building, which is $152,067,064.00.
Taxpayers in the three district towns are NOT being asked to pay this amount. The MSBA (Massachusetts School Building Association) is covering $61 million of this total. Taxpayers will be responsible for $89,457,399 with Mass Save contributing $1.6 million in energy incentives.
Question 2: Proposition 2 ½ Exclusion
Question 2 is the town ballot to authorize a debt exclusion that will allow for the funding of the high school building.
This asks residents:
“Shall the town of _______________ be allowed to exempt from the provision of proposition two and one-half, so-called, the amounts required to pay the Town’s allocable share of the bond issued by the Berkshire Hills Regional School District for the purpose of paying costs to replace the existing Monument Mountain Regional High School with a new facility serving students in grades 9-12 on the site of the existing school, including the payment of all costs incidental or related thereto?”
Links to full warrants:
If you are traveling out of the area on November 4th, you can request an absentee ballot for each question. The last day to request an absentee ballot is October 28th, 2025, at 5:00 pm.
Click here for an Absentee ballot application.
Early in-Person voting will not be available.
Early voting by mail is only available for Question 2, the town ballot, not for Question 1, district ballot. Mail-in votes must be received by 8 pm on November 4th at Town Hall to be counted that evening.
- Last Day to register to Vote: October 24th
- Last Day to request Absentee mail-in ballots: October 28th by 5 PM
- Last Day to absentee in-person vote on the Town ballot: November 3rd by 12 noon
For more information about the high school building project, including a list of Frequently Asked Questions, please see https://monumentbuildingproject.org/.
You can reach out to the building committee at https://monumentbuildingproject.org/connect/ or contact Superintendent Peter Dillon directly at peter.dillon@bhrsd.org.