HANCOCK — “Nothing too crazy,” was how town clerk Wendy Stender described Hancock’s Tuesday morning town meeting.

The budget passed with only a slight change, there were no contests for elective office and the 30 or so people at the gathering got an update on the effort to build new housing in the village.

The change to the budget came while residents discussed how much law enforcement they wanted to pay for. Stender said that the general sense was that folks wanted officials to be around to crack down on speeding and other bad driving in Hancock. Plus the recent murder in town hung like a dark cloud over the discussion.

The selectboard had put $1 for sheriff’s department coverage in the proposed budget as a place to start the discussion. Ultimately, it was decided to add almost $15,000 to the town spending plan to pay for about 20 hours a week of coverage by sheriff’s deputies.

That put the budget for municipal and road expenses a little under $542,000, and it passed.

Selectboard Chair Scott Gillette was re-elected to the board by voice vote at town meeting in the morning, and at the board meeting in the evening he was re-elected chair.

Also on Tuesday morning, Brian Pine of White and Burke talked with townspeople about the effort to build out some housing in Taylor Meadow in the village behind the town clerk’s office. White and Burke is carrying out a feasibility study for such a development. Stender pointed out that there is not a lot of places that Hancock can grow its population.

“So much of our town is protected forest,” she said.

Town officials urged residents to get involved and take part in the feasibility study. Go to the town website, hancockvt.org, or stop in at the town clerk’s office to provide your input.