Warren voters passed a $9.7 million bond to construct a new town garage on Vaughn Brown Road with 324 yes votes, 211 no votes and two spoiled ballots. The town will proceed with putting the project out to bid with construction slated for next year. The land on School Road in Warren Village, where the town’s current garage is located will be rehabbed and may potentially be used for housing.
Over the fall and winter, Warren’s road crew will undertake preliminary site work at the Vaughn Brown Road site, as time and their regular work allows. The town expects to be using the new garage by next fall.
“We are so grateful for the support and understanding our residents have shown in providing a facility worthy of the hard work and dedication of our road crew and the town’s equipment. Thank you. Now we work hard with our partners at WLA and Re-Arch to keep the final number as low as we possibly can through efficiency, competitive bidding and making tough decisions where needed,” said select board chair and vice chair Devin Klein Corrigan and Camilla Behn in a statement.
“We hear the financial strain our residents are experiencing and we take our responsibility to keep it to a minimum seriously,” they added.
Warren has 1,607 registered voters and 537 of them cast ballots in this week’s November 4 election for a turnout of 33.4%. That was one of the highest turnouts in The Valley.
Including the Mad River Valley and Waterbury, voters in 18 towns cast ballots this week on a $149 million bond to construct a new campus for the Central Vermont Career Center.
Votes from 18-member towns in the career center district will be co-mingled, but not until today, November 6. Some votes were counted in the towns where they were cast, including those in Waterbury and Barre. The rest of the votes will be brought to the Barre Auditorium today and fed into tallying machines at specific times, starting with Middlesex and Worcester at 9 a.m. and ending with Duxbury and Moretown at 12:30 p.m.
Voter turnout in Waitsfield was 24.6% with 372 of the town’s 1,508 voters casting a ballot. In Fayston, turnout was 20.4% and 262 ballots were cast. The town has 1,280 registered voters. In Duxbury, 210 of the town’s 1,168 voters cast ballots for a turnout of 17.9%. Moretown saw a turnout of 244 voters casting ballots. The town has 1,491 registered voters and 16.36% cast ballots. In Waterbury 559 of the town’s 4,545 registered voters showed up at the polls, for a turnout of 12.29%.
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