WEATHERSFIELD — Voters on Tuesday approved a revised school budget of $9.8 million, 363-221.
The School Board presented the new budget with $146,000 in cuts after voters rejected the $9.95 million budget on Town Meeting Day last month, 440-268.
The 1.5% budget cut included one teaching position and $15,000 from athletics. The board also eliminated some nursing services and updates to the school’s mandated AED equipment (Automated External Defibrillator used to treat sudden cardiac arrest) from the budget because the district received grants to cover those expenses.
The approved budget has a per pupil spending increase of just below 10% as compared to 13% in the first budget. The tax rate impact was reduced from 21 cents per $100 of assessed valuation to 15 cents.
Tuesday’s turnout was 24%, or 585, of the town’s 2,401 registered voters.
On Town Meeting Day, March 3, Weathersfield voters also defeated the $2.05 million municipal general fund budget, 450-257, and the $1.31 million highway budget, 362-346.
A revised general fund budget of $2.02 million and a revised highway fund budget of $1.3 million will be presented at an informational meeting on Saturday, May 16 at 12:30 p.m. at Weathersfield School, with ballot voting on Tuesday, May 19 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Martin Memorial Hall.
Also on the May 19 warning are appropriations for the fire apparatus acquisition reserve fund for $75,000 to go toward replacing the department’s 2006 brush vehicle and $150,000 for the highway motorized equipment reserve fund to replace a 10-wheel dump truck.
Voters rejected a $100,000 appropriation for the apparatus fund and a $292,000 appropriation for the motorized equipment fund on Town Meeting Day.
