GRAFTON — Voters rejected a request to forgive $6,000 in taxes and legal fees owed on the Grafton Center Meetinghouse on a 181-88 tally Tuesday at Town Meeting.
Mascoma Valley Preservation, which is restoring the historic Route 4 building, was seeking permission to forgo payments inherited from the property’s prior owner, Peaceful Assembly Church.
In a nonbinding article, residents voted, 147-123, in support of building a new library on a parcel of land that was donated to the town in 2016.
But they rejected an article to change the name and purpose of the Recreation Field Shelter Capital Reserve Fund to the Library Building Capital Reserve Fund in order to expand the current Grafton Public Library or to build the new one at 2 Library Road on a 175-98 vote.
The $1.2 million operating budget passed, 163-89, and a $50,000 request for paving town roads won, 168-103.
But a lease-to-own purchase agreement for a new grader was rejected, 168-101.