Claremont — During all-day balloting Tuesday, voters approved the $34.7 million school budget, elected Rebecca Zullo, Mike Petrin and incumbent Frank Sprague to the School Board and overwhelmingly approved four changes to the city charter.

The rest of the school warrant was approved, including three-year contracts for paraprofessionals, maintenance workers and secretaries.

One of the charter changes means the police and fire chiefs and the public work directors no longer will be required to live in Claremont but instead can live within 15 minutes travel time to their respective offices. The change was proposed because interim Public Works Director Scott Sweet lives in Cornish, right over the Claremont line, and could not be named permanent director, which former City Manager Guy Santagate wanted to do.

The other charter amendments were made to coincide with the city’s change in its fiscal year to July 1-June 30.

Sprague won 344 votes, and Petrin 231 in a five-way race for seats on the School Board. Falling short for the two, three-year seats were Alex Herzog, 225, former School Board Chairman Richard Seaman (177), and Dave Pacetti (97). Herzog, an administrator at River Valley Community College, was appointed last year after Becky Ferland resigned.

In the other School Board race, Zullo defeated Mike Cirre, 302-269, to complete the one year left on the term of Brent Ferland, who announced earlier he would step down after the annual school vote.

The budget approval means teachers will get raises under a one-year contract of $268,486 that was in the budget, along with a one-year agreement for administrators.

The other approved articles were $141,000 for security upgrades at the schools and $100,000 for roof repairs at the technical center.

All the articles for the school and the amendments to the charter passed in each of the city’s three wards.

The estimated tax rate impact of the approved spending is a decrease of 3 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation when combining both the local and state education tax rates, school officials said.

Turnout citywide was 9 percent of the city’s 6,980 registered voters.