Athens
Annual Town Meeting is Saturday, March 4, at 10 a.m. at the elementary school.
• New backhoe: Voters will be asked whether the town should purchase its own backhoe at $150,000, to be financed over several years.
• Fixing things up: Voters will consider spending $10,000 to maintain and stabilize the Athens Meetinghouse, and $10,000 for a capital reserve fund to pay for improvements to the Town Office.
• School funding: Voters will be asked whether to approve the Athens/Grafton joint contract budget of $1,347,163.49 for K-6 expenses for the 2017-18 school year, and $951,289.72 for the Athens School District ($13,579.55 per pupil, an 11.97-percent increase from the current year).
• Social services spending: Voters will consider several requests from local social services agencies, totaling $6,180.
• School merger: Voters will be asked to approve the town's entry into the new Windham Northeast Unified School District with Grafton, Rockingham, and Westminster.
Brattleboro
• Elections: Town and school district elections will take place at the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Municipal Center, 230 Main St., from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. by Australian ballot.
• Representative Town Meeting takes place Saturday, March 25, at 8:30 a.m., in the multipurpose room of Brattleboro Area Middle School.
Brookline
Voters will meet in the Multipurpose Room of the Brookline School building at 10 a.m.
• Australian Ballot vote on Act 46 merger takes place from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Elections: After nominating a town moderator, voters will elect town officers, including town clerk, town treasurer, and collector of delinquent taxes.
• Town budget and taxes: Voters will be asked to approve $290,222, then to decide the dates to collect town taxes.
• Social services: Voters will be asked to approve $6,306 to support 19 nonprofit organizations serving the town.
• Recycling: Voters are asked whether to appropriate $11,000 to pay for recycling costs for fiscal year 2018.
Dover
The Annual Town Meeting and Town School District Meeting are set for Dover Town Hall on the Common at 10 a.m.
• Australian ballot voting: The polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Elections: Up for election are these town and school district officers: auditor, first constable, grand juror, two library trustees, two listers, moderator (school), moderator (town), school director (three-year term), school director (two-year term), Selectboard member (three-year term), Selectboard member (two-year term), town agent, town clerk, town treasurer, and trustee of public funds.
• Financial: The town seeks $2,204,674.73 for the coming year, plus:
- $1,383,843.52 in highway funds,
- $650,000 for the capital paving fund,
- $250,000 for the capital equipment fund,
- $58,000 for the capital building improvement fund,
- $5,161.25 for supporting MHCA Dover Cinema (Memorial Hall Center for the Arts, Inc.),
- $3,372 for supporting Southeastern Vermont Economic Development Strategies (SeVEDS) activities.
• School budget: The town school district seeks $3,105,067, or $16,461.84 per equalized pupil, a 1.08-percent increase.
• School merger: By Australian ballot, voters will consider the formation of the new River Valleys Unified School District, which will include the towns of Marlboro and Wardsboro.
• Playground: Voters will consider spending $25,000 to install a playground for the preschool program.
Dummerston
Town meeting begins at 10 a.m. at Dummerston's Elementary School; the school portion begins after.
• Election: Polls are open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Property-tax exemptions: Voters will decide to grant one-year tax exemptions to the Evening Star Grange and the Green Mountain Camp.
• Money matters: Voters will decide whether to raise $170,000 through taxes for the Capital Fund. Voters will also consider total general fund expenditures of $512.093 - a bit more than half from taxes and the remaining from non-tax revenues.
• Highway spending: Voters will be asked to authorize expenditures of $90,000 from the Capital Fund for a new one-ton dump truck.
For the highway budget, voters will decide to approve $511,189 - about two-thirds coming from taxes and the rest from non-tax revenues.
• New fire truck: Voters will consider buying a new fire truck for $325,000, to be financed over a five-year period, and to authorize the first-year's payment of $65,000.
• School budget: Voters will consider a $2,987,500 school budget, which will result in equalized per pupil spending of $17,466, or 1.5 percent higher than the current year.
Grafton
Meeting begins at Grafton Elementary School at 10 a.m. Polls are open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• School budget: Voters will be asked to consider $1,347,163 for Athens/Grafton K–6 expenses and $878,169 for the Grafton Town School District. Spending per equalized pupil ($13,880) represents a 5.59-percent increase.
• Town expenses: Voters will consider $149,000 for capital expenses, $530,850 for highways, $256,090 for Selectboard budget, $44,000 for emergency services, and $9,741 for social-service agencies.
• School merger: Voters will consider forming a Windham Northeast Unified School District with Athens, Rockingham, and Westminster.
Guilford
Meeting begins at 10 a.m. in the Guilford Central School gymnasium. Polls are open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Town budget: Voters will consider a highway fund budget of $956,653 and a general fund budget of $849,918. Other budgetary items include decisions on appropriating $230,063 for the volunteer fire department, $31,000 for the library, and $6,363 for the Southern Vermont Economic Development Strategies (SeVEDS).
• Windham Regional Commission: Voters will also decide whether the town should continue its membership in the Windham Regional Commission, and to raise and appropriate $4,709 for the town's share of its expense.
• Social-service organizations: Voters will consider funding $20,430. The largest portions of this line item would go to Visiting Nurse & Hospice for VT and NH, Guilford Cares, and SEVCA.
• School spending: The school budget is up for vote. Projected spending per equalized pupil is up 8.2 percent over last year; the total budget is $3,041,000.
Voters will decide whether to approve a $150,000 bond to make heating system improvements to the Guilford Central School.
Voters will ask the WSESU Study Committee to consider “a full and thorough examination” of alternative school district mergers.
• Voters need to know: Both Selectboard races are contested. For the three-year seat, Verandah Porche is running against incumbent Richard Clark. Selectboard Vice-Chair Troy Revis is not seeking re-election - newcomers Nathanael Matthiesen and Richard Wizansky are vying for that seat. See story, this issue.
Halifax
Voters will meet at 10 a.m. at Halifax Elementary School. The town portion of the meeting starts at 10 a.m.; the school portion, at 1 p.m.
• Elections: Polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Town expenses: Voters will decide whether to approve Selectboard and highway expenditures of $1,374,562, of which $1,175,062 shall be raised by taxes and $199,500 by non-tax revenues.
• School expenses: Voters will decide whether to approve $1,486,738 for the Halifax School District.
• Social services: Voters will decide whether to appropriate $19,580 for local social-service agencies, the Whitingham Free Public Library, Halifax EMS, and the Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice.
• Three or five?: Voters will consider whether to expand the Selectboard from three members to five members.
• Recycling: Voters will consider whether to spend $7,000 to contract with a private vendor for recycling services.
• Having a party: Voters will consider whether to appropriate $5,000 for a proposed “summer celebration of community life in the town of Halifax.”
Jamaica
Town Meeting begins at 10 a.m. at Jamaica Town Hall. The School Meeting begins at 1 p.m. Polls are open for Australian ballot from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Elections: Voters will elect a moderator, hear the report of the professional auditors, and elect a Selectboard member for a term of three years (by ballot); two Selectboard members for a term of one year (by ballot); lister for a term of three years (by ballot); first constable; second constable; town grand juror; town agent; trustee of public funds; agent to deed land; and library trustee.
• Town budget: Articles ask voters to authorize a transfer of the prior year revenue surplus of $144,359, of which $55.814 will be used for the first payment on the new town garage, $50,000 for the town building reserve fund, and the remainder to lower the amount of taxes to be raised.
Voters will see what sum of money they'll vote to pay the town's running expenses and how it'll be collected; authorize the Selectboard to borrow money in anticipation of taxes; and authorize the board to spend “unanticipated funds such as grants, gifts and/or interest.”
• School budget: Voters will consider a $1,224,838 budget for the Jamaica School District which, if approved, would result in education spending of $16,951 per equalized pupil, or 10.02 percent higher than the current year.
• School merger: Voters will consider including the town in a new unified school district, to be called the West River Education District, with the current town school districts of Newfane, Brookline, Townshend, and Windham, and the Leland & Gray Union Middle/High School District #34.
Londonderry
Voters will meet at the Town Hall at 9:30 a.m.
• Elections: Voters will elect town officials, including three board members to Mountain Towns Regional Education School District and a trustee of public funds.
• Policing: Voters are asked whether to fund $86,000 for contracting with the Vermont State Police for policing the town.
• Highway equipment: Voters are asked whether to approve raising $120,000 for the highway equipment reserve fund.
• Salt shed: Voters are asked whether to approve raising $200,000 for a new road salt/sand shed on the Prouty land, and finance no more than $160,000 over five years with $40,000 coming from the current year's taxes.
• Organizations and associations: Shall the town vote to raise $26,000 for the Mountain Valley Medical Center? $20,000 for Champion Fire Company No. 5? $10,000 for the South Londonderry Library Association? $6,000 for the Londonderry Volunteer Rescue Squad? $2,000 for the West River Montessori School? $1,000 for the Londonderry Conservation Fund. A combined $28,900 for 20 other social service organizations?
Marlboro
Meeting begins at 9 a.m. at the Town House, with the school district meeting set for 9:10 a.m.
• Australian ballot: Polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Town Office.
• Town expenses: The town seeks $275,000 for the general fund, $360,000 for highways and their maintenance, $24,457 for emergency services, $3,000 for the Marlboro Mixer newsletter, and $3,234 for SeVEDS.
• Fix-up fund: Voters will be asked whether to create a Town House Restoration Fund and appropriate $10,000 for the first phase of the restoration.
• Goodbye, Columbus: Voters will be asked whether to proclaim the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples' Day in place of Columbus Day.
• School expenses: The town seeks $2,582,426 for the next fiscal year, or $16,901 per equalized pupil. This figure represents a 1 percent increase.
• Social services: Voters will consider $9,929 in spending for 12 agencies.
• School merger: By Australian Ballot, voters will consider the formation of the new River Valleys Unified School District, which will include the towns of Dover and Wardsboro.
Newfane
Town Meeting is at Williamsville Hall on Tuesday, March 7, beginning at 9 a.m.
• Budget: Voters will decide to authorize $381,638 for capital fund expenditures outlined in the capital needs plan; appropriate $206,400 for the next fiscal year's capital needs; and borrow up to $30,000 for said needs.
For future capital needs, the Selectboard seeks $100,000 for the Capital Reserve Fund. Proposed town and highway operational expenditures are $1,378,908. SeVEDS also is seeking $5,178 for economic development in the Windham County region.
• Voters need to know: With Town Clerk Gloria Cristelli retiring after eight years, the town seeks someone to fill the position. Carol Hesselbach is running unopposed.
Maureen Albert-Piascik is leaving the treasurer position; Melissa Brown is the only candidate.
Selectboard Chair Todd Lawley, who has served as a board member for nine years, does not seek re-election for his one-year seat that expires this year. Roads Commissioner Chris Williams is running unopposed for that position.
Selectboard members Michael Fitzpatrick and Marion Dowling, respectively up for re-election to the three- and one-year seats, are running unopposed.
Putney
Meeting begins at 10 a.m. at Putney Central School, 182 Westminster Road. Polls are open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Library: Voters will elect three trustees to the Putney Public Library.
• Budget: Voters will consider the sewer fund budget as outlined in the 2016 Town Report. Voters will consider a general fund amount of $1,197,226, and a highway fund amount of $878,898 for the next fiscal year.
• Dump truck: Voters will decide whether to authorize the Selectboard to borrow up to $175,000 to purchase a dump truck.
• Reserve funds: The Selectboard seeks to establish two reserve funds - for roof replacements and sidewalk repairs - and asks voters to approve transferring $10,000 for each from the Capital Reserve Fund.
• SeVEDS: The Southeastern Vermont Economic Development Strategies team seeks $8,106 for economic development in the Windham County region.
• Tax exemptions: The town will vote on whether to grant municipal and education taxation exemptions on two properties for five years, beginning April 1. The Windham and Windsor Housing Trust owns the land at 52 Kimball Hill on which the Noyes House - owned by Putney Cares - is located. The second property, Pierce's Hall, at 121 East Putney Falls Rd., is owned by East Putney Community Club.
• School spending: The school budget is up for vote. Projected spending per equalized pupil is up 1.8 percent over last year; the total budget is $3,303,760. Voters will ask the WSESU Study Committee to consider “a full and thorough examination” of alternative school district mergers.
• Voters need to know: Selectboard member Josh Laughlin and Town Clerk and Treasurer Denise Germon are both running unopposed for re-election to their respective offices.
Rockingham
Town Meeting begins Monday, March 6 at 7 p.m. in the Town Hall auditorium (Bellows Falls Opera House) to act upon all articles to be voted on the floor.
• Australian ballot: Voters go to the polls on March 7 at the Masonic Temple (61 Westminster St.) from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. to decide multiple school, local municipal, and town meeting articles by Australian ballot.
• Municipal budget: Voters will consider a budget of $5,382,600 of which $4,381,675 will be raised by taxes. Rockingham Free Public Library seeks $396,972 for operating expenses, with $347,070 to be raised by taxes.
• Schools: Rockingham School District voters will be asked to approve $9,772,390.50 in expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year, of which $17,480.03 is forecast to be spent per equalized student: a 6.83 percent increase in spending over the current year.
There will also be a request for $148,085 from the fiscal 2016 balance to create a reserve fund for capital improvements at the Rockingham schools.
• School merger: Voters will be asked to have Rockingham join the new Windham Northeast Unified School District with Athens, Grafton, and Westminster.
• Social services: Voters will consider a request for $1,750 for the Women's Freedom Center, $2,700 for Health Care and Rehabilitative Services, and $77,603 for 11 other social-service agencies.
Stratton
The Annual Town Meeting begins at 10 a.m. at the Town Hall. The Annual School District meeting follows at 11.
• Elections: Voters will decide elections for Selectboard (one three-year term, two one-year terms); Planning Commission (two four-year terms); the lister, an auditor, the cemetery commissioner, a delinquent-tax collector, trustee of public funds, constable, grand juror, and the town agent.
• Budget: Voters are asked to raise and appropriate $972,913.11 for the general fund and $910,800 for the highway fund. Town officials also seek $30,068 to support 23 local service organizations and $52,150 for the Stratton Mountain Volunteer Fire Company.
• Tuition: Articles set the annual 2017-2018 tuition rate to the Mountain School at Winhall up to $15,000 per pupil for resident students in K-8; the annual 2017-2018 tuition rate to Burr & Burton Academy up to $16,700 per district-resident pupil for grades 9-12; and the annual respective K-6 and 7-12 tuition rates to all other private or approved independent schools up to the announced Vermont Union Elementary School tuition rate.
• Expenditures: District voters are asked to approve the School Board expending $690,592, “which is the amount the School Board has determined to be necessary for the ensuing fiscal year.”
It is estimated that the proposed school budget, if approved, will result in education spending of $15,944 per equalized pupil, which is 11 percent lower than spending for the current year.
Townshend
Voters are asked to meet at Town Hall at 9 a.m. The School District Annual Meeting is at 1 p.m.
• Budget: Voters will be asked whether Townshend shall appropriate $420,389 to pay for the running expenses and liabilities of the town, $431,867 for the running expenses and liabilities of maintaining the town's roads, $120,000 for a front-end loader for the Highway Department, $47,400 to support the town library; $10,000 for a Fire Department capital expenditure fund for a future pumper; and $1,750 for the old cemetery fund.
• Proposed school budget: Voters are asked whether to back a $1,400,900 budget, an estimated $17,368 per equalized pupil, a 5.6-percent increase.
• Social services: Voters will decide whether to raise $16,620 to support social services.
• Sound forestry: Will voters authorize the Selectboard to acquire, by gift or purchase, land for municipal forest, to promote reforestation, water conservation, and good forestry practices?
Vernon
Vernon Town and Town School District Meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, March 6, at the Vernon Elementary School cafeteria. The second night of Town Meeting, if needed, will take place there Wednesday, March 8, at 6:30 p.m.
• Elections: Voting takes place on Tuesday, March 7, in the downstairs of the Town Office building, and polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Selectboard Chair Christiane Howe's term is up this year and she is not seeking re-election. Three candidates are competing for this three-year seat: Jean Carr, Jessica Freeman Earp, and Kristina Walker.
Selectboard member Emily Vergobbe's two-year term ends with the March elections, and she is not running again. The sole candidate is Jeff Dunklee, who was appointed to the Selectboard in November 2015 to replace Mike Courtemanche, who resigned partway through his term. Dunklee had previously served on the Selectboard, but resigned in April 2015.
• School budget: Voters will decide whether to approve a proposed school budget of $4,079,300, up by 14.6 percent per equalized pupil from last year.
• Town budget: Voters will choose whether to approve the $1,928,262.78 total general fund expenditure. Voters will also decide whether to appropriate $198,591 for the funding of items approved in the capital plan and whether to appropriate $15,000 for the operation of the Emergency Management Office.
• Library: The Selectboard reduced the Vernon Free Library's budget by approximately 38 percent this year, to $70,000. Townspeople successfully filed a petition asking voters to raise and appropriate an additional $39,900 for the administration of the library. Voters will also elect three library trustees.
• Funding funds: Will voters approve the following: $50,000 for the Town Road Upgrading Fund, $2,500 for the Town Parking Lots Maintenance Fund, $10,000 for the Reappraisal Fund, and $35,000 for the Professional Services Fund.
Voters will weigh in on whether $40,000 in tax money should go into James Cusick Scholarship Fund and if $20,000 in taxes should fund the Elderly Assistance Fund.
• Garbage time: Voters will decide whether to appropriate $25,470 in tax money for the Windham Solid Waste District Assessment, and $45,000 for municipal refuse, recycling and compost disposal.
• Social-service organizations and other nonprofits: Seven social-service organizations seek a combined $19,010 in funding via tax revenue to aid area residents. The largest amounts are sought by SeVEDS ($6,600), Visiting Nurses and Hospice of VT & NH ($6,500), and SEVCA ($2,100).
• Farmland protection: The resurrected Farmland Protection Committee successfully got two articles on the warning.
One asks voters to authorize the Selectboard to appropriate $54,000 from the Farmland Protection Fund to help Jeffrey and Kelli Dunklee permanently preserve 73 acres of their farmland on Pond Road.
The other seeks $45,300, plus expenses not to exceed $6,000, from the Farmland Protection Fund to buy the development rights to permanently conserve approximately 25 acres of Jean Carr's agricultural land on Pond Road.
• Tax exemption: Pond Road Chapel seeks exemption from municipal and education taxes from 2018 to 2022.
• Junk: Enough voters successfully petitioned the Selectboard to include an item on the warning approving the junk ordinance. Although the board already passed the ordinance in December and the law went into effect on Feb. 3, many townspeople decried the change and the stiff fines it imposes for non-compliance. By putting this article on the warning, voters have the opportunity to reverse the decision if enough people vote no.
• Town and auditor's reports: Voters will decide whether the town can mail a postcard to all registered voters 30 days before Town Meeting, announcing the availability of the Town Report and Auditor's Report, instead of mailing the entire report to all residents.
Wardsboro
The Town School District's Annual Meeting is Monday, March 6, 6:30 p.m., at Town Hall. The 232nd Annual Town Meeting is set for Tuesday, March 7, at 9 a.m. at Town Hall.
• Town elections: Voters will elect a moderator, town clerk; town treasurer; one Selectboard member for three years (by ballot); two Selectboard members for one year; lister for three years (by ballot); auditor for three years (by ballot); trustee of public funds; first constable; second constable; collector of delinquent taxes; town agent; cemetery commissioner; and library trustee.
• Budget: Voters will determine if the town will approve the fiscal 2018 municipal budget of $982,743, which is $56,495 higher than this year (a 6-percent increase).
• School district: Voters are asked to set the annual 2017-18 tuition rate for middle and high school students at an amount not to exceed the average published tuition of Vermont union high schools for the 2017-18 school year for the students of the Wardsboro School District enrolled in an approved independent school.
• Budget: The School Board proposes voters approve a $1,983,726 budget, which works out to education spending of $15,576 per equalized pupil - that's 1.3 percent higher than spending for the current year.
• School merger: Voters will consider a merger with the school districts of Dover and Marlboro under Act 46 to form the new River Valleys Unified School District.
Westminster
Annual Town and School Meeting takes place Saturday, March 4, at 10 a.m., at the Bellows Falls Union High School auditorium. If necessary, any remaining articles from the Saturday session will be taken up there on Tuesday, March 7 at 8 p.m.
• Elections: Elections take place by Australian ballot Tuesday, March 7 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Westminster Institute on Route 5.
• Budget: Voters will consider a town budget of $1,901,185 as well as spending $130,000 for the Town Equipment Reserve Fund; $15,000 for the Bridge Reserve Fund; $5,000 for the monthly Westminster Gazette; $9,534 for SeVEDS workforce and economic development coordination, and $8,400 for the Westminster West Public Library.
• Reserve funds: Voters will also consider applying funds from the FY 2016 town budget surplus for the following uses: $63,000 for a reserve fun for proposed upgrades to the town garage, $100,000 for the Capital Improvement Fund to pay for renovations to Town Hall, and $140,000 for a “rainy day” fund for emergency expenses.
• Fire district: Voters will consider a $252,350 budget for Town Fire District No. 3 for FY 2018.
• School budget: Voters will consider $4,424,914.57 in spending for the Town School District, or $15,283.68 per equalized pupil, a 4.4-percent decrease.
• School reserve funds: Voters will also consider applying funds from the fiscal year 2016 fund balance for the following: $57,843,45 to create a reserve fund for tuition payments for students in grades 7 and 8, $40,000 to create a reserve fund for capital improvements at the Westminster schools, and $60,000 to offset expenditures in fiscal year 2019.
• School merger: Voters will be asked to have Westminster join the new Windham Northeast Unified School District with Athens, Grafton, and Rockingham.
Whitingham
Town Meeting starts at 10 a.m. at the Twin Valley Middle/High School, followed by the School District Meeting to discuss any business other than two ballot questions.
• Australian ballot: Polls are open for elections and school district Australian ballot questions (on school district officers and the school budget) from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Financial matters: Voters will consider $569,681 for general use, $110,000 for the town use of school property, $7,754 for upkeep of the Town Hill Common, $72,126 for the Town Fire Department, $20,000 for the Fire Department Equipment Fund, $1,252,952 for highways, $85,000 for the Highway Equipment Fund, $77,750 for the library, $10,000 for the Municipal Facilities Fund, $10,000 for Deerfield Valley Rescue, $16,900 for cemeteries, and $2,000 for a fund for the 2026 Old Home Week activities.
• Social services and nonprofits: Voters will consider $25,653 of funding for a number of social-service organizations. They will also be asked to waive the $300-per-month rent for use of the Municipal Center by Dave and Terrie Dumaine for senior meals.
• Litigation fund: Voters will be asked whether to appropriate $100,000 for the town litigation fund “in the event we need to litigate with the state because of the inequality of the school tax.”
Last month, in a letter sent to voters, the Selectboard urged the town to reject the school budget to protest the way the state calculates per-pupil spending, arguing that the formula has unfairly penalized the town.
Wilmington
The floor meeting for the Annual Town and Town School District Meeting begins at 10 a.m. at Twin Valley Elementary. School District Meeting will be followed by Annual Town Meeting.
• Australian ballot/elections: The Australian ballot portion of Annual Town Meeting takes place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Schools: Voters will be asked whether to approve a town school budget of $9,445,523, or $19,078 per equalized pupil. That is an 11.6 percent higher per-pupil cost than the current year.
• Bridge repair: Voters will decide whether to approve $444,000 to replace the Look Road bridge, to be financed over five years.
• Recycling: Voters will decide whether to approve $18,000 to fund recycling at the former town garage site.
• Town finances: Voters will consider a $2.1 million general fund budget and a $1.3 million road budget.
• Voting changes: Voters will consider the following question: “Shall the Town of Wilmington adopt its budget articles and vote all pubic questions by public ballot?”
Other articles will address capital fund needs for the fire department ($125,000), Memorial Hall ($20,000), the library ($12,000), the playground ($1,000), and the Town Hall ($5,000).
Windham
Annual Town Meeting begins 10 a.m. in the Town Hall.
• Schools: Voters will consider a $378,842 budget for the Windham Elementary School District.
• Budget items: Voters will debate spending $192,461 for the General Fund, $410,602 for road maintenance, $105,000 for repaving and bridge repair, and $30,000 for the Windham Volunteer Fire Company.
• Funds: Voters will consider spending $60,000 for a new Road Machinery Replacement Fund and $5,000 for the Windham Weatherization Fund.
• School merger: Voters will consider including the town in a new unified school district, to be called the West River Education District, with the current town school districts of Brookline, Jamaica, Newfane, Townshend, and the Leland & Gray Union Middle/High School District #34.