Town Meeting Results

As Vermont's historic day of democracy once again passes us by, we can now look at how the voters actions will play out through the coming year. As is customary in the Town of Burke, most of the legislation was done by Australian ballot. Articles 1 through 6, the only to be voted on by voice, were passed with nary a nay. And it turned out, after the votes were tallied, that articles 7 through 25 followed the same trend. This came as a bit of a surprise. Not only did the voters decide to fund all appropriation articles, they even thought it was fitting to fund a new construction project. The town offices will soon see an addition that will house a community building and a senior meal site. The price tag, $235,000. Now this is not an outlandish amount of money for a sizable construction project, but one is still surprised that the voters decided to progress their spending during this period of economic regression.