Boothbay voters at a special town meeting June 27 replenished two overdrafted municipal accounts. Fifteen residents addressed the three-article warrant in the meeting in the municipal building conference room.

Residents elected Deputy Town Clerk Andrea Lowery moderator and then voted on selectmen's two requests to transfer funds from the unassigned account, or surplus, to pay for legal and code enforcement department overages. Article 2 requested voters authorize transferring $60,000 from surplus to the FY 18 legal account.  Article 3 requested transferring $32,600 from surplus to the FY 18 code enforcement account.

Bryer reported both overages were mostly due to three lawsuits against the town stemming from Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ expansion project. The town exhausted its $30,000 legal budget on lawsuits over the appeals board’s Nov. 9 decision denying CMBG a building permit. The code enforcement overdraft was caused by employing an extra officer. In December, the department retained Art Dunlap as an additional code enforcement officer for handling CMBG’s expansion project, appeals hearings and lawsuits.

Voters approved Articles 2 and 3 without opposition.