Annual Town Meeting - Thursday, May 19th at 7:00 PM
Pomfret's Annual Town Meeting was held on Thursday, May 19th!
Proposed budgets and a number of other items were approved at this meeting. Read the minutes below.
General Government Proposed Budget - FY 2022/2023
Board of Education Proposed Budget - FY 2022/2023
The proposed 2022-2023 general government budget is $3,160,260. This is $181,258, or 6.08%, over the 2021-2022 budget. The proposed Board of Education budget is $10,707,843, 3.3% or $341,593 over the 2021-2022 budget. Together the budgets total $13,868,103, an increase of $522,851 or 3.9% 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.
Non-binding Questions on Cannabis.
Other items to be voted on include the usual items of business regarding cemetery funds, highway funds, acceptance of sewer easements, and ordinances to appoint the town clerk and treasurer. There are also two non-binding questions on the growing and sale of cannabis in Town. Pomfret’s Planning and Zoning Commission recommended adding these questions to gage how Pomfret residents feel about growing and / or sale of cannabis in Pomfret. The P&Z Commission recently passed a six-month moratorium on the sale and processing of cannabis to give them time to get public opinion and decide how Pomfret should address the legalization of cannabis in the State.
Get together and govern. Refreshments will be available, and your presence is encouraged. Our legislative body is the Annual Town Meeting made up of citizens of the town coming together to gather, discuss, and direct the affairs of the town for the coming year. Please mark your calendar and join your neighbors in governing your town.