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COVENTRY â Once again, the Fiscal Year 2021 budget presented to voters in Coventry was defeated this week â and this time, it looks like level funding will stick.
Just 2,464, or around 9 percent, of Coventryâs some 25,000 registered voters turned out for Thursdayâs all-day referendum, with 1,159 voting for the proposed $109.2 million budget and 1,305 opposing it.Â
On the municipal side, the proposed additional $225,000 in local appropriations would have supported a few new positions, as well as overdue raises for non-union employees. While Interim Town Manager Ed Warzycha said Tuesday that the town would be OK without that additional funding, he added that Coventry Public Schools would struggle were it to be denied the extra $1.2 million that the proposed budget had allocated for it.
COVENTRY — For the third time in twice as many months, Coventry residents will head to the polls today to either accept or reject a $109.2 million budget for the
COVENTRY â Since Gary Coteâs resignation last month from the Coventry Town Council, the District 4 seat has been empty. A special election to fill that open position is being arranged for early May, Interim Town Manager Ed Warzycha said this week, with a tentative primary date scheduled in April.Â
The earliest that an election could be held to fill the vacancy is April 6, Warzycha said during Mondayâs town council meeting. If necessary, a primary in that case would take place March 2. However, with a statewide bond referendum also scheduled for that date, the state Board of Elections suggested the town delay its special election.Â