WEYBRIDGE — Weybridge voters will have a busy 2026 town meeting, during which they’ll be asked to pass fiscal year 2027 town and highway budgets, establish and seed a new “unanticipated expense reserve fund,” decide a contested race for a spot in their selectboard, and field two separate resolutions related to health care reform and Israel’s military conduct in Gaza.

The contested selectboard race, for a two-year term, pits challenger Chris Bagley against incumbent Kelly Flynn. Incumbent Charlie Jordan has no competition for a three-year term on the board. All other municipal elections in Weybridge this March are uncontested.

The selectboard is proposing an FY27 highway budget of $678,349, which is a 9.6% increase compared to this year’s $618,748 spending plan.

Weybridge’s FY26 general fund ask comes in at $261,402, up 23.9% from the current’s year’s $210,882 spending plan.

Residents will field a non-binding resolution urging the state Legislature to discuss and vote on bill H.433, which would launch “Green Mountain Care,” a publicly financed health care program for all Vermont residents that would initially offer universal access to primary care.

They’ll also decide a resolution that would encourage Weybridge’s elected leaders “to end all current and future town business, investments and contracts with companies as long as such companies engage in business that sustains Israel’s apartheid, genocide, and illegal occupation of Palestine.”

Other articles on Weybridge’s town meeting warning seek:

• $30,000 for the Weybridge Volunteer Fire Department.
• $15,000 to continue the town’s volunteer recycling program for another year.
• $26,767 to continue a partnership with the town of Middlebury through which Weybridge residents get full access to Ilsley Library services. Weybridge doesn’t operate a local public library.
• $70,000 to seed a new “unanticipated expense reserve fund,” if residents elect to establish such a fund.

Weybridge voters will field a proposed fiscal year 2027 Addison Central School District budget of $53 million, to provide PreK-12 public education for children in Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham and Weybridge. If approved, the budget would result in a 3.58% increase in per-pupil education spending, for a total of $15,638 per child.

The proposed spending plan calls for a 2.15% bump (3 cents) in the district’s current education property tax rate of $1.62 per $100 in property value. But the actual education tax rates in the seven ACSD-member towns will vary, based largely on their common level of appraisal (CLA). CLAs — as determined by town-by-town analyses of their real estate sales by the Vermont Department of Taxes — compare towns’ property tax assessments to fair market value. If approved, the ACSD spending plan would result in an education property tax rate of $1.11 per $100 in property in Weybridge, based on the district’s latest projections. That would be down around 66 cents compared to this year’s rate of $1.77.

It should be noted that two-thirds of Vermonters pay at least a portion of their school taxes based on income.

There’s a referendum on the March 3 ballot asking ACSD residents if they’d like to officially close Ripton Elementary. If that referendum passes, it paves the way for Ripton to reacquire the property.

Voters will be asked to fill four seats on the 13-member ACSD board — two from Middlebury, one from Salisbury and one from Bridport. There are no takers for the Salisbury seat or for one of the Middlebury seats. Meanwhile, incumbent Jason Chance of Middlebury and new candidate Robyn Stattel of Bridport are unopposed. All ACSD candidates run at-large in the seven-town district.

County residents will field a proposed fiscal year 2027 Patricia Hannaford Career Center budget of $6,271,915, representing a 9.95% increase compared to the current spending plan that delivers Career and Technical Education to students interested in the trades. The increase is largely associated with debt service on a major Career Center improvement project, negotiated wages, and health insurances increases.

Weybridge’s annual meeting will be held on Monday, March 2, at 7 p.m. at Weybridge Elementary School. Australian ballot voting will take place on Tuesday, March 3, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., at the town clerk’s office.