The Annual Town Meeting in Ridgefield is being held tonight.  Residents will decide on the date for the budget referendum, slated for May 14th.  Nearly $900,000 in capital items will be voted on tonight.   

The meeting is at 7:30pm in the Ridgefield Playhouse. 

The proposed budget for the municipality is $38.19 million, holding spending flat.  The proposed school budget is little more than $98-million dollars and is a 3.36 percent spending increase over the current year.  Taxes would go up 1.24 percent if the budget is approved later this month.  On the ballot will also be a fire department ladder truck, replacement computer infrastructure for the schools and energy and water saving projects. 

The capital items being decided tonight are each under $100,000.