Two residents turned out for the town meeting Tuesday night to approve the transfer of $100,000 from the Capital Reserve Fund into the general fund. Combined with $66,556 drawn from the Board of Education’s non-lapsing fund, the money will pay for two new oil burners at Botelle School.
The old burners are worn out and have been nursed along for years. Perotti’s Plumbing, the firm that services them, advised their immediate replacement more than a year ago when one or the other of the two burners failed on subsequent days.
The town received only one bid, from Perotti’s, to provide the new burners.
The school board is allowed by state law to place surplus funds amounting to one percent of its budget in a non-lapsing fund each year.