PHILLIPS – Voters have 59 articles to consider and the responsibility to elect several municipal and school officials when they meet Saturday for the annual town meeting. They’ll also need to decide if they want to adopt a comprehensive plan for the town at the 1 p.m. meeting at the Phillips Middle School.
Town Manager Laura Toothaker said the spending proposal for 2005 is about $325,016, if voters approve everything. That would be an increase of about $5,254 over last year’s budget.
Nominations will be taken from the floor for a three-year term for the selectman’s seat currently held by Guy Haines, a three-year term for the SAD 58 Board of Directors seat held by Alan Morse, and a one-year term for the town clerk’s post held by Evelyn Wilbur.
Haines is not running for re-election, Toothaker said.
The warrant looks similar to past years’, she said, except for a proposal to adopt the comprehensive plan. There were public hearings on the proposal, she said, and there was minimal attendance.
Copies of the plan are available at the town office.
Toothaker, who has served as town manager for 35 years, said the meeting could take between 90 minutes to four hours, depending on what residents want to talk about.
She said she used to make a list of items she thought residents would want to discuss, but then at the meeting nobody would ask questions about those items.
“I stopped predicting,” Toothaker said, laughing.
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