CHESTERFIELD – Voters at the annual Town Meeting on Monday unanimously passed a nearly $3.4 million budget for the fiscal year beginning on July 1.

The $3,395,034 budget is an increase of $85,906 or 2.5 percent from this year with educational expenses totaling $1,871,683. These include $777,423 for the Hampshire Regional School District, $732,278 for Goshen/Chesterfield Regional School and $360,421 for Smith Vocational.

A total of 60 of the town’s 907 registered voters, or 6.6 percent, attended the meeting and also approved the purchase of a $230,000 dump truck for the Highway Department, and $45,000 four-wheel-drive police cruiser.

The new police cruiser will replace a 2008 cruiser.

“Our vehicles are stored outside and the elements have really done a number on them. This one is really getting close to the end of its life,” interim Police Chief Denise Wickland said. “This amount of $45,000 will allow us to purchase a vehicle that will suit us for the next 10 years.”

After a 30-minute discussion, residents also approved by a 44-8 vote using $20,000 in free cash to fund a feasibility study for a new public safety and/or town office complex on the Davenport site.

The study will consider options for a public safety complex on town-owned property where the Davenport Town Offices currently stand.

“We decide it would be appropriate for us to do a feasibility study on this property because it is property that we do not have to purchase, and this will allow us to see if we should continue to consider this site as a public safety and/or town office complex,” Select Board Chairwoman Patricia Colson-Montgomery said.

While some in town argued that other properties should be considered in the study, the Select Board noted that the cost would be far more than $20,000, and it made sense to begin the process with the Davenport site.

Voters also unanimously approved $50,000 for the Capital Improvements Stabilization Fund and $30,000 for the Land Acquisition Stabilization Fund to be used for the purpose of purchasing land for future senior housing.

Spending $26,000 for new guardrails on Ireland Street, $10,500 for cemetery repairs, and $8,500 for two sets of turnout gear for the Fire Department also passed unanimously.