The Wilton budget for the coming fiscal year has been approved. During the Annual Town Meeting vote, unofficial results show about 74-percent of participants cast a yes vote for the $130.94 million budget. Each of the 6 ballot questions were approved, with 74 to 89 percent of those same voters casting yes votes.
Wilton residents authorized a new police station, funding for road improvements, a vacuum truck, a study of school building HVAC replacement, and the bridge replacement and school roof replacement programs.
The mill rate will be 28-point-22. The Municipal Budget is $33,943,364, the Board of Education Budget is $86,677,862. Debt Service is $9,025,210.
Capital items approved were $1,100,000 for the Construction and Reconstruction of Town Roads, $760,137 for the Bridge Replacement Program, $16,400,000 for the Construction and Furnishing of a New Police Headquarters, $500,000 for the Acquisition of a Vacuum Truck , $600,000 for the Construction and Installation of School District Roof Replacements, and $100,000 for the Study and Design of Middlebrook Middle School and Cider Mill School Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Replacements.
