Alexander

Voters elected officers, transferred funds from various accounts and decided other financial issues in 21 warrant articles during the annual town meeting.

They will approve budgets for the municipality, school and county tax in June.

Voters in the two-hour session March 31 turned down a recommendation by selectmen to raise $37,000 to build a salt-sand shed.

Instead, the approximately 70 voters chose to start the project by transferring $30,000 from the roads account, $30,000 from undesignated funds and $2,433 from the property tax relief fund.

They may raise more money for the project at the June town budget meeting, still unscheduled.

They agreed to turn over funds received in the first-responder category to the Fire Department on a continuing basis.

Voters authorized selectmen to join other participating communities and quasi-municipal employers in a state employer welfare arrangement to save money on employee health benefits.

They raised $1,000 for the salary of a code enforcement officer and held the annual salary for town clerk, tax collector and treasurer – positions held by Shirley McCall – at $20,000.

They also approved $1,200 for the annual salary of selectmen and $2,500 for assessors.

They accepted the selectmen’s recommendation for state Department of Transportation scale wages for roads and cemetery workers and $6.25 per hour or minimum wage, whichever is higher, for all others.

The community has 485 residents.

Voters re-elected McCall to another year in office. They also elected Howard Seavey and Frederick Wallace to three-year terms on the Board of Selectmen, and Norma Donahue to a three-year term on the Board of Assessors.

They elected selectmen to the positions of overseers of the poor and road commissioners.

Also elected to office: Lisa Thompson and Audrey Frost school board, three years; Janice Sullivan, school board, one year; Pedro Ceijas and Danny Daley, planning board, five years; and John Dudley, cemetery supervisor, one year.

– Compiled by Gloria Flannery