Woodstock Town Meeting details for Saturday, Tuesday

A proposal to eliminate the office of Town Lister will be decided by Woodstock voters on Saturday, during the floor meeting portion of Town Meeting. In total, Saturday’s floor meeting will include voting on articles 1-10 on Woodstock’s Town Meeting Warning. It will be on Saturday, March 4, at 10 a.m. at Woodstock Town Hall in the Pentangle Theater.

Woodstock town voters will head to the polls on Tuesday, March 7, at Town Hall, where they will decide articles 11-21 by Australian ballot. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday’s vote will include elected town offices, which are all uncontested. (On the school side, voters on Tuesday will decide the $25.83 million school budget proposed by the Windsor Central Unified Union School District.)

The Town Meeting articles to be voted on Saturday and Tuesday can be found at this link, and to read the full Town Report, click here.

If approved on Saturday, Article 3, the lister question, would replace the office of lister — an elected position — with assessors employed by the town. In accordance with state law, Article 3 will be voted by paper ballot, not the voice vote typical of the floor meeting.

The town budget will also be decided on Saturday in Article 6, which asks voters to appropriate the sum of $7,681,341, with $5,692,712 to be raised by taxes.

— Gareth Henderson