RIPTON — Brooke Wilcox topped Milo Tudor, 131-25, in the Town Meeting Day race for a three-year term on the selectboard, succeeding incumbent Laurie Cox, who decided not to seek reelection after 40 years of service.

Residents also passed by resounding voice votes all the business on their annual warning, including:

• A proposal for Ripton to reacquire its elementary school building and property from the Addison Central School District, which included a $70,000 appropriation to maintain and operate the school for the year. Tuesday’s positive vote by ACSD voters to formally close Ripton Elementary has paved the way for that property transfer. The town is establishing a committee to sort out the logistics of bringing the elementary school property back into the fold and deciding how it can be used. Ripton officials have said the school building could host the town offices, a municipal library, a community center & gym, with enough space left over to attract a tenant to help offset future annual operating costs.
• A proposed fiscal year ’27 town/highway budget of $878,682, which was 1% higher than the previous year.
• $47,100 for the Ripton Volunteer Fire Department.
• $6,000 for the Ripton Cemetery Commission.
• A series of modest appropriations — ranging from $300 to $1,901 — for various Addison County nonprofits that serve Ripton residents.
• 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.
• An extension of an agreement allowing the Vermont Elks Association’s Silver Towers Camp to be taxed at 33% of its assessed value.

Aside from the selectboard race, there were no other contested elections.

Ripton residents on Tuesday, March 3, also cast ballots on a proposed fiscal year 2027 Addison Central School District budget of $53 million, a proposed FY27 Patricia Hannaford Career Center (PHCC) budget of $6,271,915; a referendum seeking formal closure of Ripton Elementary School; and a series of uncontested elections for the ACSD board.