DENMARK — Voters returned incumbent Selectman Kirk McDermith to the board and approved a $1.1 million town budget over the weekend.

McDermith won an uncontested re-election with 65 votes during Friday’s annual town election. In the only race in this year’s annual town election, Norma Snow won a seat on the SAD 72 Board of Directors with 58 votes. No tally was available for her opponent, Helen Ramsdell.

The Planning Board gained three new members — all write-in candidates. They were Ed Enos with 16 votes and Donna Dodge with eight votes for the two three-year seats and Peter Nilsen with four votes for the one-year open seat.

Town Clerk Cherylene Booker said 37 voters turned out for the annual town meeting that was held in the municipal building on Saturday. It took just over an hour to complete voting on the 44-article warrant.

The $1,132,231 town budget included capital funding needs such as road projects and $9,955 to assist service providers, including the Lakes Environmental Association and Child Health Center, she said.

This year Denmark exceeded the LD1 levy limit by approximately $200,000 because of proposed road work, which necessitated a vote to exceed the imposed limit. Town meeting members approved allowing town officials to use excise taxes and state revenue sharing funds to fill the revenue gap and to start to fill the town’s undesignated surplus fund.

Voters also approved using $58,176 from state highway funding to put toward road repair projects this year. Voters approved appropriating another $225,000 for the capital road improvements, including work on Mountain Road and, if funding permits, Bush Row Road and Rocky Knoll Road.

In other action, voters raised $143,635 for property and vehicle insurance coverage, $371,640 for the transfer station and $371,640 for the Public Works Department.

Voters also approved entering into a 20-year agreement with Oxford County Regional Recycling Corp. for recycling purposes.

Town officials received voter approval to authorize the selectmen, with the assistance and advice of a committee of three members elected by the town, to dispose of real estate acquired by the town through nonpayment of taxes. The article also allows the board and committee to retain, possess, improve, develop, lease land or other actions for the town or public purposes.

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