UPDATE: Turnout Light In Oxford Budget Vote

UPDATE: Voter turnout in Tuesday’s referendum was slow just before noon as rain fell outside Quaker Farms School.

It’s a light turnout right now,” election moderator Augie Palmer, a former first selectman, said. It started off light before the rain.”

As of 11:50, 421 of the town’s 8,365 registered voters — just over 5 percent — had cast ballots.

By comparison, 996 people voted in the first budget referendum last year.

Original story is below:

Oxford residents go to the polls Tuesday, May 15, to decide whether to approve budgets for next year totaling about $40.7 million dollars.

Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Quaker Farms School. Click here for a map.

The referendum, a sample ballot for which is posted below, asks residents three yes-or-no questions:

  • whether to approve the municipal budget
  • whether to approve the school budget
  • whether to approve a one-time expenditure for road improvements.

Article continues after the ballot.

Oxford Referendum Sample Ballot

The budgets total $40,689,464:

  • $26,548,247 in school spending, an increase of $609,101, or 2.3 percent.
  • $13,407,217 for town operations, an increase of $26,501, or a 0.2 percent.
  • $734,000 in one-time spending to repair several roads in town.

If approved, the mill rate would go from 23.21 to 24.10, an increase of .89 mills, or 3.82 percent.

On a house assessed at $250,000, that means property taxes would go from $5,802.50 to $6,025.

The proposed budget is reproduced at the bottom of this story.

Previous stories:

Oxford Sets May 15 Budget Referendum

Oxford Finance Board Trims $250,000 Off School Request

Tax Increased Bemoaned At Hearing On Oxford Budget

Oxford Budget Would Increase Taxes 4.2 Percent

Oxford Proposed Budget Carries 1 Mill Increase

Oxford Proposed 2012 – 2013 Budget

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