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MANCHESTER â The Select Board agreed Tuesday to continue its loosened restrictions on businesses instituted last year early in the pandemic.
Referred to as its COVID-19 relief for businesses, the Select Board voted last year to grant some leeway to businesses who found their dining rooms closed by the government-ordered shutdown to help fight the spread of the virus.
Business owners were allowed to move some seating outside if feasible. The effort to get more people outside and spread out mean that businesses could, in some cases, use some of their parking lot for outdoor dining, as well as sidewalks.
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MANCHESTER â Manchester voters approved everything including the budget, rail trail, a fire truck and the library funding.
Without a floor vote and everything being handled with Australian ballot, the Town Meeting Day produced one of the largest vote tallies in recent memory with close to 1,200 votes cast.
And voters were in a generous mood, approving all funding requests including the $5,979,211 budget, by a vote of 937 to 205.
The funding plan calls for a 3.75 percent increase despite cutting spending by $1.01 million dollars as revenues also decreased by $1.13 million.
The Manchester Select Board cut nearly every budget in town except for the fire departmentâs budget.