Brookfield Voters Reject Latest Budgets

BROOKFIELD, CT -- Voters rejected the $42.9 million school spending proposal and the $24.1 million town budget in a referendum last night, sending the plan into a new round of revisions, the News-Times has reported.

Following a review of the answers to advisory questions that accompanied the ballot, officials indicated the majority of voters thought the budgets were too high. The latest proposal was about $400,000 less than the budget plans defeated two weeks ago, which would have increased school spending by 4.7 percent and town spending by 0.75 percent.

For more on the story, see The News-Times.

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