Amity

Voters at the March 29 annual town meeting decided to discontinue taking care of Sucker Town Road and stopped maintenance on the ends of Monument Road and Tracy Road where no one lives.

The 22 voters attending the 30-minute meeting took that action in an effort to hold town expenditures to a minimum.

They also reduced the snowplowing budget by $2,000 from $20,689 and appropriated no money for road work. Town officials plan to use state road aid for any road building that must be done.

Voters approved a municipal spending plan at approximately $148,000. While that sum was similar to the total appropriated a year ago, the new total included an extra $4,000 raised toward an anticipated hike in the education budget.

“We are doing our best to keep the mill rate the same, but a lot will depend on the school budget,” Town Manager Darrell Williams said Friday.

The tax rate is $17.50 per $1,000 in property valuation in the community of 201 residents.

Williams said the school budget last year was more than $96,000, and he expected the new budget to demand about $21,000 more. The county tax rose from $10,999 to $12,300, he added.

The contract for fire protection with the town of Houlton, at $7,746, increased $1,392.

Ambulance service also provided by Houlton, dropped $431 to $3,459.

Voters elected Joseph Ledger to a three-year term on the Board of Selectman and Julie Chapla to a three-year term on SAD 70 board of directors.

– Compiled by Gloria Flannery