Residents at the Somerville town meeting voted Saturday to approve $350 for improvements to a local unused, one-room schoolhouse after a discussion to determine what work was needed.

About 25 residents from the town of about 500 were at the meeting, according to First Selectman David Stanley.

“Sand Hill School is in some disrepair and there was a discussion to decide what to do, and we decided that we were going to schedule a public hearing,” Stanley said. A date for the hearing has not yet been set.

Voters residents passed all 18 articles, agreeing to spend $30,251 for municipal salaries, a 5 percent increase over last year; $95,600 for snow removal, up 19 percent from last year; $77,000 for maintaining roads and bridges, no change from last year; and $2,000 for cutting bushes, no change from last year.

Also approved was $26,000 for the Somerville Volunteer Fire Department and $10,957 for the TriCounty Solid Waste Management Organization.

The only change in appropriations was an increase from $220 to $300 for CHIP, a fuel assistance program.

Stanley said he was pleased with the meeting, although the turnout was relatively small.

“To me, it’s the last vestige of democracy,” he said. “Your hand going up is the vote.”

Somerville will vote on its school budget in June.

On Friday, residents voted to re-elect the three incumbent selectmen, who were running unopposed. Re-elected to another one-year term were Stanley, Second Selectwoman Martha Staples and Third Selectman Arthur Barnett.

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