NEW SHARON — Voters at the annual town meeting Saturday will consider whether to raise $240,000 to replace the roof on the Town Office building and spend $115,000 to design and plan for adding a fire station to the building.
The meeting begins at 9 a.m. in the Cape Cod Hill School gymnasium.
Voters will consider 54 articles and a proposed $1.36 million budget. If the spending is approved, it would be offset by $280,095 in carryovers, the town reserve fund and unappropriated surplus accounts, and federal and state reimbursements.
The $1.08 million voters will be asked to raise through taxes is $176,915 more than last year. The increase is attributed to an article to replace the roof on the Town Office building. It is one of three articles seeking money to update and expand the building to include a fire station.
The first asks voters if they favor spending up to $22,000 from the Fire Station Building Reserve Fund to do structural testing on the building. They will also be asked if they favor spending up to $115,000 from the same fund for designing and planning a fire station that would be added to the building. The third article asks voters to raise and appropriate $240,000 to replace the roof on the Town Office building.
If the first of these does not pass, the remaining articles must be passed over.
Voters will also weigh in on spending $25,000 to purchase 6.3 acres owned by the New Sharon Water District. The lot contains two ball fields and is used by the Water District.
If the article is approved, the purchase will be paid from the recreation field reserve account and dump closing fund balance.
dmenear@thefranklinjournal.com
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