Week in review: school vote set, fund shifts and a 180-unit plan in the upriver towns
What town boards decided or set up this week
ENFIELD - Upriver boards set up decisions on schools, housing and town investments this week, official records show.
- Enfield: The town's election warning lists two Nov. 3 questions: a $511 million appropriation for four new elementary schools and converting Eli Whitney Elementary into a therapeutic day school, with town borrowing capped at $89 million; and a Town Charter revision.
- Suffield: The Board of Finance voted Oct. 13 to cut the OPEB retiree-benefit fund's stock share to 52.5% and take the CNRE capital fund out of stocks, draft minutes show.
- Suffield: The Housing Authority will vote next meeting on a Nexys Energy solar proposal, its minutes say.
- East Windsor: Planning and Zoning on Oct. 13 received plans for 180 apartments and a medical office at 120 North Road and continued its town plan hearing to Oct. 27, draft minutes show.
Source: Enfield election warning (https://www.enfield-ct.gov/DocumentCenter/View/26977/2026-11-03-Warning-of-Election); Suffield Board of Finance draft minutes (https://www.suffieldct.gov/fs/resource-manager/view/c8bd41d0-dbb4-4df0-9ef2-7b3dbff5800e); Suffield Housing Authority minutes (https://www.suffieldct.gov/fs/resource-manager/view/1be02103-47e0-4dce-900b-3925665795ac); East Windsor Planning and Zoning draft minutes (https://www.eastwindsor-ct.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_10132026-689).
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