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Select Board favors keeping airport funding as a warrant article
Summary
Board members discussed whether airport funding should be included in the operating budget or left as a warrant article; the board preferred the warrant-article approach, citing past voter practice.
Select Board members debated whether annual airport operating payments should remain a separate warrant article or be incorporated into the operating budget. Board member Kathy-Jean Lavoie said that when voters originally approved membership in the airport, a follow-up article historically authorized the annual operating payment and that precedent favors keeping a separate warrant article. The board indicated a preference to retain the airport payment as a warrant article rather than folding it into the operating budget.
What happens next: the airport funding approach will be left as a warrant article for consideration at the town meeting, consistent with the board's expressed preference.
