Brownfield, Maine, voters at a special town meeting June 26 by a two-thirds majority in a show of hands vote approved an amended town employee salary warrant article to $874,465, utilizing $32,000 from health insurance reserves to offset the the original $906,465 amount for payroll and benefits. (TOM EASTMAN PHOTO)
Select board chair Ricky Emery (center, standing) speaks at Brownfield, Maine's special town meeting June 26, flanked by (from left) Selectmen Vincent Lanovara, Rick Day and guest moderator Norman Blake of Baldwin. (TOM EASTMAN PHOTO)
Brownfield, Maine, voters at a special town meeting June 26 by a two-thirds majority in a show of hands vote approved an amended town employee salary warrant article to $874,465, utilizing $32,000 from health insurance reserves to offset the the original $906,465 amount for payroll and benefits. (TOM EASTMAN PHOTO)
Select board chair Ricky Emery (center, standing) speaks at Brownfield, Maine's special town meeting June 26, flanked by (from left) Selectmen Vincent Lanovara, Rick Day and guest moderator Norman Blake of Baldwin. (TOM EASTMAN PHOTO)
BROWNFIELD, Maine — Voters at a jampacked special meeting at the Brownfield Community Center last Thursday approved by a two-thirds majority show of hands an amended warrant article for $874,465 to fund town payroll and benefits — thus staving off a crisis of not paying town employees when the new fiscal year starts July 1.
After several failed amendments during the one-hour-and 19-minute meeting, Selectmen chair Ricky Emery made the motion to amend the original $906,465 warrant article, adding to the language a provision that selectmen would utilize $32,000 from health insurance reserves to offset the amount to a new figure of $874,465 for payroll and benefits.
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