EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally said, incorrectly, that the town warrant article to rescind SB2 passed.

Most warrant articles on Pittsfield’s town and school district ballot passed while voters fell short of returning to a traditional town meeting format during Tuesday’s ballot voting.

The proposed operating budgets for both the school district and the town, which were lower than the default budgets, passed. 

A warrant article on the town ballot to rescind SB2 voting received majority support but fell 39 votes short of the 3/5 support needed. On the school ballot, a similar article to rescind SB2 failed to receive even a simple majority.

Article 5 on the town warrant, which asked for a raise in wages and benefits for the town clerk/tax collector, failed. 

There were two, three-year select board positions on the ballot with four candidates vying for the seats. Arthur J. St. Laurent was first in voting with 342 votes and Paul W. Colby was elected with 340 votes.

There was another available select board position, for a one-year term, and the only candidate on the ballot for that role was Sabrina Ann Smith. Smith lost the election to Larry Konopka, the current select board member whose position Smith was trying to fill. Konopka won by write-in, 340-184.

 Alexander Rapp can be  reached at arapp@cmonitor.com