BUCKFIELD — Following two years of delaying the date of the annual Town Meeting, the Select Board on Tuesday voted to hold the 2022 Town Meeting and referendum on June 14.

The Town Meeting will be a referendum vote on the town budget, warrants and select board members. It will be held on the same date as the Regional School Unit 10 budget vote and was recommended by Town Manager Lorna Nichols.

Multiple changes in town managers, a completely new office staff and the lack of an audit hampered the preparations of this year’s municipal budget, which did not get sent to voters until Sept. 28, more than three months later than normal. The late vote delayed the issuance of tax bills, which did not get mailed until a week before the Nov. 15 due date. The previous year’s budget vote was held two months late at the end of August.

The setting of the vote in June is a small but significant signal that things are starting to return to normal since going through five town managers in little over 13 months, culminating with Nichols’ hiring in late September.

In other business, Nichols said the town is desperately looking for a deputy town clerk and tax collector to replace Calley Baker, who is resigning.

The Town Office will be closed on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 25-26, for Thanksgiving, as well as Christmas Eve and New Years’ Eve.

Because the town just recently began the audit process for the fiscal year ending June 2021, the board agreed to delay the due date of the audit from December to early April 2022.

A workshop on a potential marijuana ordinance will be held Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 6:30 p.m. Any ordinance approved by the Select Board would need voter approval before taking effect.

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