CHESTERFIELD — Voters on Monday unanimously passed a fiscal 2020 budget of $3,758,479, an increase of $110,653, or 3 percent, over the current years’ budget.
Education represented the bulk of the budget, coming in at $2,024,975.
During the one-and-a-half-hour meeting, 57 of the towns 904 registered voters unanimously approved raising and appropriating $90,000 for the School Building Maintenance Stabilization fund, which will be put toward necessary roof repairs at the New Hingham Elementary School.
Voters also unanimously approved another $90,000 for the Town’s Capital Projects Stabilization Fund.
To provide seed money for the town’s Broadband Expense Account, residents unanimously voted to use $50,000 from free cash to pay for expenses, prior to the network generating sufficient revenue.
Ireland Street Cemetery will be increasing in size, now that voters unanimously approved spending $11,000 of free cash to remove trees, stumps and rocks in the cemetery. This work will be done so as to expand the cemetery toward the rear of the property.
Another $12,500 from free cash to repair to the historic stone walls at the cemetery was also unanimously approved. The money will be used as matching funds required to apply for a Massachusetts Historical Grant. The funds will only be used it the grant is received.
Voters also unanimously approved taking $2,500 from free cash to pay for one set of turnout gear for the Fire Department.
By an overwhelming majority, voters also approved a non-binding resolution calling for the United States to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and for the commonwealth to align with the treaty, by setting up a citizens commission to the implications of doing so, as per the bills HD. 3477 and SD.1688 currently before the state Legislature.