Brookfield residents have approved a budget.

The $20.7 million municipal budget is a 4.93-percent increase.  The $38.29 million education budget proposal is a 3.4-percent increase.  There is $125,000 included in the budget for school resource officers. 

First Selectman Bill Davidson says over the past three years only about 35-to-40 percent of eligible residents have voted on the budget. 

There was also another question on the ballot.  Brookfield residents approved a $2.5 million sewer project for three condo developments. Those benefitting from it will pay for the cost though an assessment. 

A Republican Town Committee official planned to file a complaint with the state Elections Enforcement Commission over the wording of a postcard sent out by the Water Pollution Control Authority ahead of the vote that urged support of the sewer project. Matt Grimes says  the wording advocated for a yes vote and is an election violation.

WPCA officials say the postcard was to tell residents that no taxpayer money would be used for the project.