Antrim voters approved all articles on the Town Meeting warrant Thursday, amending one to increase the dollar amount that would be raised to explore a town buildings stewardship plan.

The article initially called for raising $50,400 to develop a stewardship plan for town-owned buildings, specifically the town hall, fire stations, Highway Department, police station, recycling center, and Tuttle Library.

“It’s so we can better plan for future needs,” said Select Board Chair John Robertson. “We feel that if we have professionals come in and assess our buildings, we can establish a plan.”

Selectman Mike Ott said that in order to take care of the buildings, the town has to find out what needs to be done for them.

“We don’t know what we don’t know about the buildings,” he said.

Jim Creighton introduced an amendment to add language to the article that would include the potential for “other town buildings,” and accordingly raised the dollar value to “up to $70,000” to ensure that more money would be available if necessary for the other buildings. This amendment passed by voice vote.

Some voters raised concern that other town-owned buildings had been left out, including structures associated with The Grapevine. Grapevine board member Rick Edmunds introduced an amendment to include Avenue A’s barn in the article, but the amendment was defeated.

Selectmen said the other buildings were not left out intentionally, but that adding in more buildings would reduce the effectiveness of the stewardship plan development, as the initial price laid out by the article was based on the amount it would take to survey the buildings in question. 

For now, said Selectman Tom Davis, the hope would be to get started on these buildings, add more as they went and test out the stewardship plan development in the process.

“We want to see how it works,” Davis said. “Trust us that next year, we’re going to add more buildings.”

All other articles passed without amendment, including the town’s $4.4 million operating budget, $20,640 for two separate articles related to Fire Department needs and $215,000 for an addition to the highway building. 

Voters also approved a bond measure for $75,000 for a wastewater facilities study, which would help determine an effective alternative to meet new requirements for the town’s discharge permit from the Environmental Protection Agency. 

A final article was brought before the voters by resident Steve Ullman, a resolution in support of Ukraine as it is invaded by Russia.

“The Town of Antrim stands in resolute support for Ukraine’s gallant resistance against Russia’s monstrous invasion,” Ullman said.

The article was approved.