BELLOWS FALLS — Voters decided against reconsidering the village budget for fiscal year 2014 in a special meeting on Sept. 19.
The meeting was necessary after a petition signed by 102 village voters asking for reconsideration of the budget forced another vote.
However, voters last week again supported the budget they approved in June. The vote was 68 in favor, and 77 against the article to reconsider.
At the May 20 and 21 Annual Village Meeting, voters shot down the original budget of $1,945,357, making another vote on a new budget, necessary.
After a revised plan that dropped a ninth officer for the Bellows Falls police department, a budget of $1,883,182 was approved by a 52-43 vote at a second meeting on June 24.