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North Brookfield voters approve 29 budget-transfer articles at special town meeting
Summary
At a May special town meeting, voters approved 29 articles reallocating funds across snow-and-ice operations, police equipment and salaries, highway and sewer accounts, water system work and town stabilization funds; a resident successfully asked to correct one water-account designation on the floor.
Moderator Sheila Orsi called the special town meeting of the Town of North Brookfield to order and presided over votes on 29 separate budget-transfer articles that the finance committee had recommended. The meeting began at about 6:00 p.m. and concluded at 6:31 p.m. at North Brookfield Elementary School.
The meeting's top votes reallocated funds to winter operations and public-safety equipment. Voters approved several snow-and-ice transfers, including a $2,504.80 move to diesel/gas dispensers, $1,571.21 to salary expense, $12,665.93 to snow-and-ice salaries from free cash, $61,500.44 for vehicles and repairs, and $50,833.63 for salt. The town also approved a $70,000 transfer from free cash to purchase a new police cruiser and a $14,500 transfer…
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