Woolwich’s accounts are back at the levels they’re supposed to be.

At a brief special town meeting on Tuesday night, residents approved three measures to address budget overruns caused by the October wind storm.

The storm left the town without power for several days into November and left storm debris around town that needed to be cleaned up. The town ran a generator constantly during the outage to create a warming station for residents, partially draining its propane tank that normally would have lasted all winter.

When all was said and done, three accounts had spent a total of $33,522.50 more than budgeted for that period.

“(The special town meeting) is just basically to replenish the funds we expended in that October storm,” Selectman David King told The Times Record previously. “We ended up spending about 75 percent of the budget for the fire department’s wages already for the year in less than half the year, and the road and bridge account took a hit.”

Residents voted to transfer $28,530 from the undesignated funds to the highways and roads account, $2,992.50 to the fire department, and $2,000 to the heating account.

Selectman Allison Hepler clarified that the Federal Emergency Management Agency would reimburse the town 90 percent of the amount the town is seeking for storm expenses. That reimbursement, however, won’t arrive for 18-24 months.

The current transfers from the undesignated funds will cover the expenses in the meantime.

nstrout@timesrecord.com

Money matters

• RESIDENTS VOTED to transfer $28,530 from the undesignated funds to the highways and roads account, $2,992.50 to the fire department, and $2,000 to the heating account.