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Annual town
meeting set
POMFRET — The Pomfret Board of Selectmen has set the call of the Annual Town Meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 19, at Pomfret Community School. This is the meeting to ratify the BOE and BOS budgets as approved by the Board of Finance and vote on non-binding questions.
— The proposed 2022-2023 general government budget is $3,160,260. This is $181,258, or 6.08 percent, over the 2021-2022 budget. The proposed Board of Education budget is $10,707,843, 3.3 percent or $341,593 over the 2021-2022 budget. Together the budgets total $13,868,103, an increase of $522,851 or 3.9 percent over the current year’s spending. The Board of Finance has approved the use of assigned and unassigned funds to support a mill rate increase under .25 mills, which will ultimately be set by the board after the Annual Town Meeting votes on the budgets. Without the use of these funds the mill rate increase would be significantly higher.
First Selectwoman Maureen Nicholson said there are two non-binding questions on cannabis. Pomfret’s Planning and Zoning Commission recommended adding these questions to gauge how Pomfret residents feel about growing and/or sale of cannabis in Pomfret. Meanwhile there is a six-month moratorium to give them time to get public opinion and decide how Pomfret should address the legalization of cannabis in the State.
Nicholson urged residents to “get together and govern.” She said refreshments will be available, and “your presence is encouraged. "
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