Coventry Town Meeting

Voters approve school spending

by Larry Bradley

COVENTRY — At Coventry’s 2025 Town Meeting, the Town Moderator Matt Maxwell (who was voted in again) moved the agenda right along.

Up for election this year were positions for a three-year term:  select board member (Kerry Keemont) and Town Clerk (Deb Tanguay), for a two-year term:  planning commission members (Stephanie Rondeau, Israel Sanville, and Trevor Maxwell), cemetery commission member (Renee Fortin), and school director (Praneet Menon); and for a 1-year term:  collector of delinquent taxes (Kate Fletcher), first constable (Donald Grondin), second constable (Israel Sanville) and trustee of cemetery funds (Praneet Menon).

Voters then approved $906,428 for general fund expenses and transfer, all of which will be raised by non-tax revenues through the Landfill Host Agreement.

The vote for the town highway fund for summer and winter road maintenance in the sum of $478,089, (plus the Vermont State funding) was passed. Residents also voted in $700,823 for summer 2025 paving projects, which included money for the repair from flooding of River Road.

Coventry agreed on a town ordinance regulating dogs, and voted in the appropriations for local service agencies in the amount of $26,802.

Town residents also voted in favor of having the select board pursue a non-binding resolution issue involving the gravel pit parcel on Hancock Hill.

The article providing support for the Coventry Town Foundation passed in the amount of $157,599, as did the Coventry School Board budget of $5,077,182, which was approved 140 to 122.