Greene will be able to build new sports fields in the near future thanks to the handful of voters who showed up for the community’s special meeting Monday night, Town Manager Charles Noonan said.

Voters passed all articles on the warrant, including one that permits the town to spend $30,000 over several years to purchase a VFW hall and the 6.3 acres of land it sits on.

Members of Greene Memorial Post 11032, whose numbers are dwindling, had approached the town offering to sell the land, Noonan said. The building, located at 53 Main St., is adjacent to Greene’s existing recreational fields, and the town was interested in building new sports fields. “It worked out to our advantage,” Noonan said.

The town has not yet decided what to do with the VFW hall itself, Ronald Grant, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, said.

The low turnout was not unusual, Grant said, given that the warrant had no controversial items, and many of the articles had been previously discussed at the town’s annual meeting in March.

One article that was not discussed at the annual meeting was a motion to appropriate $35,000 to repair weather damage to Quaker Ridge Road. An 800-foot section of the road had been washed out in heavy rains in mid-May, rendering the road impassable. The town has already built the road back up so that is it usable but not paved; it needed voter approval to allocate funds to repave the road. The article passed Monday night, and construction to finish rebuilding the road will begin soon, Noonan said.

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