Coventry Voters Approves Town Budget

COVENTRY, RI — Coventry voters approved a new town budget during Thursday's all-day referendum. The budget was passed 1404 votes to 1262.

By district, the votes break down as follows:

The $111,763,164 budget includes funding for both town services and the school department, broken down as follows:

Municipal services

• Police department, public works, library, parks and recreation, human services, other government departments
• $31.2 million
• Funded by taxes, federal and state aid

School department

• $48.6 million from tax revenues
• $26.7 million from state aid
• Total budget: $75.4 million

Bond payments (principal and interest)

• $5.1 million from taxes, interest earnings and state aid