Budget of $17.6 Million Tops Annual Town Meeting Warrant

By MAX HART

After making short work of the nonappropriating side of town affairs this week, Tisbury voters will head back to the elementary school gymnasium for the annual town meeting Tuesday night, this time to tackle finances for the upcoming fiscal year.

They will be greeted by a 21-article warrant featuring a $17.6 million budget and more than $1.5 million in spending requests, including almost $600,000 in capital spending and close to $300,000 in embarkation fee money allocation.

Tisbury Voters Endorse Formula for Allocating Ferry Fee Revenue

By MAX HART

Tisbury voters breezed through special town meeting Tuesday night, approving each of the 12 warrant articles with relative ease. The hard part was getting them to show up.

Study Assesses Costs in Up-Island Schools

Long-Awaited Analysis of Finances for Regional District Concludes Cost Allocation Formula Is Fair

IAN FEIN

The cost allocation formula for the Up-Island Regional School District is substantially fair, according to a long-awaited independent analysis released yesterday.

Edgartown Weighs Merits of Water Contract Request

By JAMES KINSELLA

Edgartown water superintendent Fred Domont earlier this year sought a salary of $100,000, but saw his request rejected by the board of selectmen.

The Edgartown board of water commissioners, the elected board to which Mr. Domont reports, backed the salary request, which would have represented an increase of almost 40 per cent from his current pay.

County Names Four to Board

Airport Commission Appointments Are Made After Several Months of Turnover and Uncertainty; Legal Questions Remain

By JAMES KINSELLA
Gazette Senior Writer

In an anticlimactic meeting, the Dukes County commissioners Wednesday appointed four new members to the Martha's Vineyard Airport commission, the entity that the commissioners have battled for years.

Court Upholds MVC Decision

Judge Supports Regional Agency Against Tisbury Fuel Service in First Trial for Commission; Developers Vow to Appeal

By IAN FEIN

A superior court judge last week upheld the unique power and regulatory authority of the Martha's Vineyard Commission, ruling alongside the regional planning agency in an appeal from the developers of a proposed Vineyard Haven gas station.