Voters reject selectboard’s town budget
Staff Report
Photo by Alicia Wolfram
Three people from Charlotte standing up for democracy in the ballot booth.
Below are the results from this year’s voting for Town Meeting Day. Of the 3,329 registered voters in Charlotte, 29 percent voted.
Noteworthy in these results is that the Charlotte Selectboard’s budget was narrowly rejected by voters with 493 voting against it and 458 voting for.
TOWN OFFICER RESULTS
Selectboard (3-year term)
LEWIS MUDGE……………………………. 731
Selectboard (2-year term)
KELLY DEVINE……………………………. 508
PATRICE MACHAVERN…………………. 336
Champlain Valley School District board (3-Year Term)
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MIKE ABBOTT………………………………. 75
MEGHAN SIKET………………………….. 112
Road Commissioner (1-year term)
HUGH LEWIS JR………………………….. 888
Charlotte Library Trustee (5-year term)
LINDSAY W. SMITH……………………… 729
Town Moderator (1-year term)
CHARLIE RUSSELL……………………….. 765
Delinguent Tax Collector (1-year term)
MARY A. MEAD…………………………… 760
Trustee of Public Funds (3-year term)
MATTHEW KRASNOW…………………. 756
CHARLOTTE ARTICLES
ARTICLE 2: Approve the selectboard’s budget for the fiscal year 2023-24 of $2,930,908?
YES…………………………………………… 458 NO 493
ARTICLE 3: Approve Charlotte Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services budget of $965,806?
YES…………………………………………… 513 NO 440
ARTICLE 4: Approve Charlotte Library budget of $324,356?
YES…………………………………………… 491 NO 461
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT BALLOT ARTICLES
ARTICLE VII: Approve school district budget for 2023-24 of $96,119,804?
YES………………………………………… 3,084 NO 1,673
ARTICLE VIII: Approve school district allocating $600,000 from fund balance as revenue for the 2023-24 operating budget?
YES………………………………………… 3,895 NO 845
ARTICLE IX: Approve district borrowing $395,000 to buy three school buses?
YES 3,322 NO 1,436