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Seymour sets annual town meeting and referendum dates, approves legal notice with $70.7 million budget figures
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Summary
The Seymour Board of Select Persons set the annual town meeting for April 7, 2026 at Seymour Middle School and approved a legal notice and referendum date of April 21, 2026. The board read proposed FY2026–27 totals: revenues and expenditures of $70,747,523, with a $43,117,765 school budget and $27,629,758 town government budget.
The Seymour Board of Select Persons voted to set the annual town meeting for April 7, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. in the Seymour Middle School auditorium and approved a legal notice for publication in the Waterbury Republican. The board also scheduled a referendum on the proposed fiscal year 2026–27 budgets for April 21, 2026, with machine voting at the Seymour Community Center from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Chair read the draft legal notice aloud, saying: "The proposed budget includes total revenues of 70,747,523 and total expenditures of 70,747,523, consisting of the board of education budget of $43,117,765 and the town government budget of $27,629,758." The board voted to approve the legal notice and the meeting scheduling; motions carried unanimously.
Nut graf: Those dates set the timetable for final deliberations and the townwide vote on school and municipal spending. The legal notice identifies two separate referendum questions: one on the town government budget ($27,629,758) and one on the board of education budget ($43,117,765); each referendum question will be a yes/no vote by machine at the Community Center on April 21.
Supporting details: The board discussed and approved the notice wording, confirmed venue addresses (Seymour Middle School, 211 Mountain Road; Seymour Community Center, 20 Pine Street), and authorized publication of the draft legal notice. The board also set alternate dates in case the April 21 referendum cannot be held as scheduled (members approved backup dates including May 5 and May 19, 2026).
What’s next: The annual town meeting will proceed on April 7 as scheduled; any further adjustments to the referendum date will be posted if necessary. The board advised that public hearings and budget deliberations are complete and that the next public step is the April 21 referendum.
