Ballotpedia covered 15 local ballot measure in Montpelier, Vermont, on March 1, 2022. Voters approved all 15 measures at the city’s town meeting election.
The voter-approved ballot measures were designed to do the following:
*authorize $30,000 to fund the 2022-2023 operating budget of the Central Vermont Public Safety Authority (CVPSA) and the CVPSA’s Telecommunications Improvement and Acquisition Plan;
*authorize spending $10,656,060 for the payment of debts, expenses, and taxes in the 2022-2023 fiscal year;
*authorize spending $4,080 to compensate the mayor in 2022-2023;
*authorize spending $12,240 for city council member compensation to pay each member $2,040 for the 2022-2023 fiscal year;
*authorize Montpelier to issue up to $7.2 million in bonds to fund the reconstruction of East State Street;
*authorize Montpelier to issue $1.815 million to fund the purchase of a pellet boiler at the Public Works Garage, street light replacements, and intersection improvements at Barre and Main Street, a retaining wall on Marvin Street, Confluence River Park, and other highway infrastructure projects, with repayment over a term of 20 years;
*authorize Montpelier to issue $2 million in bonds for the purchase of approximately 138 acres of land, formerly the Elks Club;
*authorize the city to issue $16.4 million in bonds for sewer treatment systems;
*authorize the city to levy an additional property tax of $51.5 per $100,000 in assessed property value on non-residential property in Montpelier’s Designated Downtown to fund downtown streetscaping and marketing;
*authorize spending $395,696 for the Kellogg-Hubbard Library for the 2022-2023 fiscal year;
*authorize spending $23,500 for the Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice;
*adopt an annual budget of $26,938,821 for the Montpelier Roxbury School District’s 2022-2023 fiscal year, amounting to an estimated $17,829.69 per equalized pupil;
*authorize spending $260,000 to supplement the Capital Reserve Fund in the 2022-2023 fiscal year;
*authorize spending $9,700 for the compensation of the school board of directors for the 2022-2023 fiscal year; and
*authorize the school board of directors to hold any audited fund balance as of June 30, 2022, to be spent on district operations under the control of the board.
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