Andover's 2013 Annual Town Meeting Round-Up

Andover Annual Town Meeting, as well as a Special Town Meeting, finally concluded this week with the passage of over 60 articles, including those putting funds towards the coming Cormier Youth Center, $2.5 million for a host of site improvements at Doherty Middle School, and an article setting up an elderly housing district in Andover.

Some of the notable articles turned down include a new economic development plan for the downtown that included selling the Town Yard land to expand downtown, a parking management action plan for downtown, and a plan to repair, rehabilitate and renovate the Ballardvale Fire Station.

On the first night of Town Meeting, roughly 400 voters approved a fiscal 2014 town budget of $147,501,097, with discussion lasting over an hour.

Town Meeting also ushered the passage of a $400,000 appropriation to renovate the high school tennis courts and $218,000 to provide new desktop and laptop computers for the school department.

During the Special Town Meeting sandwiched between the Annual Town Meeting, voters approved $700,000 contribution to the construction of the Cormier Youth Center and $700,000 towards the Elder Services Program Stabilization Fund.

The body of voters also approved a number of zoning bylaw changes as well as approval of various expenditures from $4,000 to over $1 million.

Find the full results from Andover's Annual Town Meeting and Special Town Meeting in a PDF attached to this article.