HOLDEN — Anthony Renzoni was returned to the Board of Selectmen in the May 13 town election. Joining him on the five-member board is Linda Long-Bellil.
Voters also approved spending questions and expressed a preference for Saturday town meetings.
Renzoni won 1,703 votes; Long-Bellil won 1,564 votes. Richard Bates finished with 1,495 votes and will not return to the board; Aidan Slaten won 1,247 votes.
The single seat for a Holden representative on the Wachusett Regional School District Committee was won by incumbent Lauren Salmon-Garrett, with 1,642 voters, to the 1,361 votes tallied by challenger Amy Miller.
Incumbents Alan N. DeGutis, with 1,821 votes, and Richard S. Maurer, with 1,797 votes, were returned to the Trustees of Damon Memorial, out-polling Maureen L. Glodas, who tallied 1,158 votes.
Other positions on the town’s ballot were: Moderator, Daniel F. Nason, 2,243 votes; and Holden Housing Authority, Paul Mark Steinberg, 2,095 votes.
Those elected were sworn in on Tuesday, May 14.
The two ballot questions allowing spending passed.
The capital expenditure exclusion won with 2,049 votes for and 1,105 against, to assess an additional $670,000 in real estate and personal property taxes for designing and constructing improvements to the modular classroom units at Dawson Elementary School, security enhancements at all Holden elementary schools and at the Mountview Middle School, completing repairs of playgrounds located at all Holden elementary schools, designing and constructing improvements to the parking lot at the Holden Senior Center, and purchasing a new ambulance for the Fire Department.
The debt exclusion to add funds for the Dawson recreational project won 1,706 votes vs 1,389 against.
There were also three nonbinding questions for voters to consider.
One to allow a real estate tax deferral option won 2,006 to 1,065;
A second showed a preference for Saturday town meetings, winning 1,956 to 1,004.
A third, supporting a feasibility study for the renovation or expansion of the senior center, won 2,346 to 777.
The 3,317 votes cast were 21.39% of the town’s 15,504 registered voters, according to the official results.
