Windsor
With 432 of the town’s 3,287 registered voters, or roughly 13 percent, going to the polls, every article passed by wide margins. The town budget was approved, 299-129.
A petition article seeking to have TransCanada or future owners of the Connecticut River dams in Wilder and Bellows Falls, Vt., create a mitigation fund if it can be shown that dam operations are causing erosion of the riverbank and adjacent roads and farmlands passed, 350-66. The fund would be used to reimburse the town and landowners. Several other towns along the river have similar questions on Town Meeting warnings.
Also approved by wide margins were appropriations for agencies including Visiting Nurses Association, Windsor On Air and the Windsor Resource Center, along with an article granting authorization to the town to bond $2 million for improvements and upgrades to the water system.
Besides the school budget, voters agreed to put $124,000 of last year’s $524,000 surplus into a capital reserve fund for upkeep and maintenance of the school. The additional $400,000 was included as revenue in the budget, which was one of the reasons the homestead education tax rate is projected to drop by more than 5 cents per $100 of assessed valuation.
The combined school and town spending approved Tuesday is projected to reduce the homestead tax rate by about 1 cent.
There were no contested races on the ballot.
