Brookfield Residents Vote Tonight on Budgets

BROOKFIELD, CT -- Residents will be voting tonight on the latest budget referendum.

$42,915,593 is proposed for the school budget, and $24,117,174 for the town.

The new proposal would see spending increase 3.5 percent and the property tax rate would increase by 4.65 percent.

The total proposal is about $400,000 less than the budgets residents rejected in the May 15 referendum. Turnout then was light, attributed by many to the severe weather which hit late in the day.

The town and school budgets are on the referendum tonight; the capital budget will require a separate referendum.

A copy of the ballot may be found here.

Polls are open tonight until 8:00 p.m.