Brookfield residents are voting on a budget today.  The education budget is proposed at $39.5 million with a proposed $21.7 million municipal budget.  There is no proposed tax increase.  There is a less than 1-percent decrease in the municipal budget and a 2.5 percent increased proposed for the schools. 

Residents will also be voting on three capital item questions.  There's $6.7 million for what First Selectman Bill Tinsley called deferred and long overdue maintenance.

Almost 20 different maintenance and repair projects are planned for Brookfield High School and Whisconier Middle School, representing $2.6 million in proposed spending.  There's also about $2 million proposed for an emergency Flood Drainage Diversion project. 

$2.1 million for improvements at Town Hall, the Library and volunteer fire houses along with road reconstruction is being proposed.  That funding request also includes equipment purchases for various departments.

Polls close at 8pm.