11:00 a.m., May 4 Update:
The unofficial returns given below are official: both budgets were passed by the number of votes given below. To see a copy of the official results sheet, click on the following link: May 3 2011 Budget Referenda - Official Results (121).
10:15 p.m. Update:
Voters approved both budgets presented to them at referendum today. The unofficial totals are:
- Town Budget (includes Town Administration and New Hartford Public Schools budgets): Yes: 268, No: 87
- Regional # 7 Budget: Yes: 198, No: 156.
Below is the breakdown of votes for both budgets from both voting places. District 1 is the New Hartford voting place and District 2 is the Bakerville voting place.
4 p.m. Update:
“A light turnout” is how Registrar of Voters Daria Hart and Lila Tuxbury characterized today’s voting on the two town budgets. “There have been about 118 – there’s two more – 120 people voting so far.” Daria said at 4:15 p.m. this afternoon. “And about the same number at South End,” Lila added.
As our reporter stood and chatted with Paul and Polly Pobuda of Pine Meadow who had just finished voting, a steady trickle of voters continued to come in, several of them dressed in business attire. The after-work voters were now arriving.
Polly and Paul Pobuda obligingly pose for our photographer after voting on the budget referendums being held today, Tuesday, May 3, in the Senior Center at Town Hall, New Hartford. Photo: Maria Moore
