Arrowsic voters will take up a 55-article warrant during a town meeting tonight. In total, the warrant presented to the voters asks for a 4.8 percent — or $36,520 — increase over the budget passed last year.
At tonight’s meeting, voters also will be asked to nominate and elect a new member of the Board of Selectmen and a treasurer, tax collector and any other town officers up for consideration.
In March, Selectman Lawrence Wilson announced that he will not seek re-election for his position during this year’s meeting.
The budget includes no increases in salaries for town officers and no significant changes in other areas of the budget. Last year, Arrowsic voters deliberated for nearly an hour before approving a slate of raises for town officials.
In Article 45, voters will be asked to weigh in on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, in which the court determined that corporations have the free speech rights of people and that spending money in political campaigns constitutes an exercise of that free speech.
The resolution asks Arrowsic voters to reject the court’s decision and “move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.”
The meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the fire station.
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