PARIS — Norway residents passed a $4.6 million municipal budget at their annual town meeting Monday evening, fully funding current services and building reserves for big-ticket items in the future.
The budget is $133,651 more than this fiscal year. It includes $225,000, or $25,000 more than this year, for road improvements, and a $10,000 increase in the bridge repair budget.
Residents voted to fund the full requests of the Highway and Public Works at $936,459, the Police Department at $707,348, the Fire Department at $266,288, and the Norway/Paris Solid Waste Inc. at $262,000.
Residents voted to appropriate $15,000 for the expansion of the police station; $25,000 for a land survey of the town garage and reserve for the future construction of a town garage building, and $20,000 toward the eventual construction of a fire substation in the north end of town.
The General Assistance appropriation went down from $80,000 this year to $49,134, though residents boosted the contribution to provider agencies from $20,000 to $30,000, according to Town Manager David Holt.
The Board of Selectmen recommended allocating $267,800 to the library, which was $20,000 more than the Budget Committee suggested, and voters approved.
Voters also agreed to fund a new town office sign and spend $8,000 to repair the Opera House clock tower. Holt said he hoped only some of the money would be necessary, but crews won’t know the extent of the repairs until a crane is in place. The Budget Committee recommended $2,500 for the repairs.
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