By Paul Sylvain

It took just 14 minutes for less than two dozen voting residents of Machias to quickly dispense with an 18-article warrant and pass an $8.4 million school budget for fiscal year 2024-25.

The meeting was held on June 25 at the Rose M. Gaffney School gymnasium.

After electing attorney Toff Toffolon as the meeting’s moderator, a motion was made to consolidate Articles 2 through 11, so that all ten of those funding articles would be voted up or down in a single vote without individual readings.