HOLDEN — As voters gathered May 20 to do their annual civic duty, they passed almost all the articles on the annual town meeting warrant.
Among the items were the town budgets, which determine what the town can fund for the coming fiscal year.
Other spending approvals included approving a $2 million debt exclusion borrowing to add funds to the Dawson recreation project as well as funding capital projects costing about $670,000 by raising the tax limit. The two articles also passed at the May 13 town election.
Additional articles passed included using $250,000 from the General Stabilization Fund to complete windows work at the Damon Memorial and Gale Free Library and $250,000 from the General Stabilization Fund for designing and constructing improvements to the modular classroom units at Dawson Elementary School.
The lone exception to the aye votes was a citizen petition to fund a $50,000 feasibility study for expansion, renovation or remodeling of the senior center.
A total of 232 voters out of the 15,504 registered Holden voters turned out to make decisions at the annual town meeting, according to Town Clerk Jeanne Hudson.
