RESULTS:
Special town meeting: Tuesday, June 28, 6 p.m.
location: old Peru School auditorium
Two articles rejected by Peru voters at the June 14 budget referendum were revisited at a special town meeting two weeks later in the old grammar-school gym. A recommendation by the Board of Selectmen to raise $72,900 for Town Office operations for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011, was quickly amended to raise $62,900, or $10,000 less. The amended article was approved by a vote of 68 to 33. An article to raise $10,000 to maintain the grammar-school building for one more year was flatly rejected. Instead, a motion to raise zero dollars was passed by a margin of 72 to 28, reflecting the wish of the voters present to close-and-dispose.
The two articles had appeared as Articles 7 and 8 on the June 14 ballot.