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Four Was the Charm: Clinton Has a Budget

In their fourth go at referendum, Clinton voters overwhelmingly approved the town’s $18,035,099 budget on June 20.

The vote was 1,344 to 995, with 23 percent of registered voters participating. The participation rate was the lowest of all four referenda, with the third vote drawing 36 percent of eligible voters, but the 349-vote margin was much larger than past votes, which had been split by as few as 10 votes in earlier referenda.

The $35,534,055 school budget passed at the third referendum.

This fourth proposed town budget increases town spending by $527,409 or 3.01 percent. In reducing its original $18,313,449 request by $278,350 or 1.52 percent over the four referenda, the Board of Selectmen voted to freeze an open, part-time position and to make additional cuts to the town’s contingency fund, library funding, and town technology and infrastructure spending, but maintained the proposed town planner position.