Saugus Town Meeting closed out its annual warrant by approving a $126,380,605 fiscal 2027 town budget. The roll call vote was reported at 47 in favor with no recorded opposition, funding a $30,606,374 school department budget and $88,774,231 in municipal department spending.
Saugus Town Meeting created two new review committees and banned cryptocurrency ATMs during a lengthy May 18 session. Members voted 41-6 to establish a Town Meeting Charter Review Committee and 42-5 to form a committee studying a possible rewrite of the town's roughly 150-page zoning bylaws.
Saugus Town Meeting sent a contested ash-landfill resolution back to its sponsor on a 28-19 roll call vote.
Saugus Town Meeting voted 48-0 to create a committee studying six vacant school buildings and passed a new electric bike bylaw, while tabling a hunting ban fight until May 11.
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