The select board voted tonight, with the agreement of a majority of the finance committee, to place a $145,000 debt exclusion override on the May 1 town meeting warrant and election ballot. The override is to pay for a new dump/sander truck and plow.
At last week’s meeting, Highway Department Supervisor Tom Poissant explained that, with about $3000 worth of repairs, the town’s 15-year-old truck might be put back into service, but it would remain unreliable.
Several members of both the selectboard and the finance committee expressed concerns about the cost of the debt override to town taxpayers. In the end, the consensus was to allow the town to make the decision.
David King
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