Tuesday, March 10
424 or 31.7 percent of Hancock’s 1,345 registered voters cast ballots
*incumbent
(one three-year seat)
Jeffrey Brown: 379 votes
(one three-year seat)
Mary Seebart: 394 votes
(one three-year seat)
Alison Rossiter*: 391 votes
(one two-year seat)
Richard Haskins*:379
(one three-year seat)
Carolyn Boland*: 175 votes
Joan Joseph: 222 votes
(one three-year seat)
multiple write-ins
(one three-year seat)
David Huntington*: 386 votes
(one six-year seat)
Annemarie Powers Algozzine: 388 votes
(one three year seat)
Jeffery Wilder*: 402 votes
Town Meeting continues Saturday, March 14
At 9 a.m. in the Hancock Meetinghouse, 47 Main Street
Proposed operating budget: $2,687,353
The proposed budget is an 8.7 percent increase over the previous budget.
■Article 2 asks voters to approve the operating budget of $2,687,353 for general operating costs of the town, including that of the Water Department. The article does not contain appropriations in special or individual articles addressed separately.
■Article 3 asks voters to authorize the Selectboard to sell the 2019 ten-wheel Kenworth truck and lease two 19,500 pound GVW trucks with dump bodies, plows, and controls for $194,000 over five years, and to spend $42,620 on the first payment in 2021.
■Article 4 asks voters to spend $25,000 to build a salt and sand mix building at the Department of Public Works.
■Article 5 asks voters to add $7,000 to the Bridge Capital Reserve Fund.
■Article 6 asks voters to add $6,000 to the Meetinghouse Capital Reserve Fund.
■Article 7 asks voters to spend $5,000 to fund the Grapevine Family and Community Resource Center programs and services.
■Article 8 asks voters to spend $1,000 to fund the Grapevine Family and Community Resource Center’s Avenue A teen center programs and services.
■Article 9 asks voters to spend $500 to fund the Community Volunteer Transportation Company programs and services.
■Article 10 asks voters to spend $7625 from the Fireworks Expendable Trust Fund on a fireworks display scheduled for July 3, 2020.
■Article 11 asks voters to adopt a solar exemption, which would allow an optional tax exemption for the value of solar energy system equipment used on a property.
■Article 12 asks voters to sponsor an annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration.
■Article 13 asks voters to spend $435 from the Baseball Special Revenue Fund to purchase baseball equipment and maintain baseball fields.
■Article 14 asks voters to spend $1,887 from the Recreation Special Revenue Fund for repairs and replacements to recreational facilities.
■Article 15 asks voters to spend $1,574 from the Hi ghway Special Revenue Fund for repairs and replacements to highway equipment.
Article 16 asks voters to spend $3,144 from the History Special Revenue Fund for preserving and storing the town’s archival records.
■Article 17 asks voters to spend $5,403 from the Police Special Revenue Fund to repair and replace police equipment.