About 100 residents at Saturday’s town meeting approved an estimated $3.1 million municipal and school budget and voted to purchase a 17-acre parcel of land for a new cemetery.

Selectman Eda Tripp said nearly all the warrant items passed except for donations to local organizations. Some of the items approved included a plow truck for the highway department; raising $8,000 to make repairs to the fire department’s Engine 8 truck; $185,000 for the maintenance of roads, culverts, bridges and bushes; and $165,000 to maintain winter roads.

Tripp said the meeting went smoothly and the turnout was good despite the continuing snowstorm that was making travel difficult.

“The road manager-commissioner, Arlan Saunders, did a really good job. He got out and plowed all the roads before town meeting time,” Tripp said.

Residents voted to purchase 17 acres adjacent to Center Hill Cemetery, and to accept Riverside Cemetery and Center Hill. Tripp said it brings the total of cemeteries in Minot to 28.

“A portion of the land will be ready to offer to people for burials in a year or two,” said Tripp, who was on the committee that promoted the land purchase. “We had no more spaces (in the cemeteries in Minot). I am quite happy that people approved this.”

Residents also voted to raise $15,000 to join the Auburn Library. Residents previously had to pay to become members of the library. Now all residents can benefit from the services offered by the library, Tripp said.

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