The fate of petitioned warrant articles during Saturday’s Loudon town meeting went in different directions.
Residents approved a measure to expand the veterans’ tax credit to any person who served for at least 90 days of active duty and was honorably discharged, or their spouse. This would potentially allow more people to apply for the $500 property tax credit.
Another petition warrant article to discontinue the use of ballot-counting machines in favor of hand-counting did not pass.
Meanwhile, an article calling for a study committee to review Loudon’s options for leaving Merrimack Valley School District was tabled.
According to the town moderator, the article was presented and the voters decided not to act on it.
The only town-sponsored article to fail was one that would have changed the purpose of a library expendable trust fund from being used solely for books to one that could have been spent on books, library collections, programs, technology and other supplies for the library.
The rest of the warrant was passed by voters. Those items included:
■an operating budget of $5.29 million.
■a purchase of a dump truck with plow equipment with capital reserve funds.
■road paving projects on Clough Hill Road and Piper Hill Road.
■a purchase of a fire department command vehicle with capital reserve funds.
■a police cruiser purchase with capital reserve funds.
■two cardiac defibrillators.
■$560,500 and $122,000 to be put in various capital reserve and expendable trust funds, respectively.
During Tuesday’s ballot voting, Loudon residents passed zoning amendments 1 through 8, including one that adds “Light Pollution” to the town codes. Amendment 9 failed. The planning board had not recommended it, because even if passed it would be unenforceable due to discrepancies with the tax map lot number.
There was just one contested race for the three-year term as a library trustee; Adriana Andrian won with 220 votes to Naquisha Bourget’s 169.