Buckland Select Board closed the warrant for a July 21 special town meeting and backed a plan to let the board negotiate tax deals with the town's hydroelectric plants.
Buckland Select Board approved a scaled-back Route 112 design and elected a new chair amid warnings that a regional tech school's building costs could strain town budgets.
Buckland Select Board unanimously recommends Route 112 design changes and advances a $250,000 park grant application.
The Buckland Select Board heard an hour-plus of divided testimony on a Route 112 sidewalk but declined to take a position.
Buckland town meeting approved a $2.7 million town budget but voted down both regional school assessments.
Buckland Select Board votes against regional school assessments and approves $500,000 override ballot question.
Buckland's Select Board voted unanimously to put a $500,000 Proposition 2½ override on the June 2 ballot to close a widening budget gap.
Buckland confronts a $300,000 fiscal 2027 deficit as the Select Board weighs a property tax override. The biggest driver is a $296,787 jump in the Mohawk Trail Regional School District assessment, plus a 73 percent, $93,000 spike in health insurance.
Buckland Select Board approved a sustainable purchasing policy and ten new Eversource utility poles, while warning a $288 million Franklin County Technical School building bond could cost the town $275,000 a year.
Buckland Select Board set the Annual Town Meeting for May 5 and warned of a possible tax override. Members voted unanimously to call the meeting for May 5 at 6:30 p.m. at Mohawk Trail Regional School and set a March 24 deadline for warrant articles.