Question A (Enumeration of Powers)

Citizens voted yes on this measure, which allows the select board to authorize funds from unanticipated revenues or the undesignated fund balance (surplus) for any public purpose it considers to be both necessary and in the best interest of the town, as opposed to the current wording, which says: of any emergency affecting the public health, safety or welfare.

Yes votes: 5,563; No votes: 1,489; Blanks: 540

Question B (Budget Board)

Citizens voted yes on this measure, which clarifies that all budget articles proposed by the budget board must go to the select board for consideration before being placed before the voters. The current ordinance allows the budget board to propose budget articles directly to citizens at the annual town meeting.

Yes: 5,844; No: 1,299; Blanks: 449

Question C (Budget Process)

Citizens voted yes on this measure, which provides the town manager with 30 additional days to provide a proposed budget, with recommendations, to the select board and budget board. This change will align Kennebunk’s budget process with the York County and the RSU 21 budget timeline. Second, the town legally has 190 days to create a budget, but the official budget meeting timeline starts in March.

Yes votes: 6,356; No votes: 868; Blanks: 368

Question D (Recall of Elected Officials)

Citizens voted yes on this measure, which limits the legally sufficient reasons that an elected official may be recalled; increases the number of registered voters signatures required to petition for and successfully complete a recall; and adds specificity to the procedure by which a recall election is held, and if necessary, a replacement official is selected.

Yes votes: 4,947; No votes: 2,143; Blanks: 502

Question E. (Kennebunk Light and Power District debt limit)

Citizens voted yes on this measure, which increases the debt limit of the Kennebunk Light and Power District from $6 million to $30 million. The upcoming Water Street Substation Replacement Project is estimated to cost approximately $12 million. Without voter approval to raise the debt limit, KLPD would not have adequate borrowing authority to contemplate this and other infrastructure work.

Yes: 3,907; No: 2,926; Blanks: 757

Question F. (Pedestrian easement)

Select Board recommends acceptance of this article by a vote of 6 in favor, 0 opposed, 1 absent

Citizens voted yes on this measure, which allows the select board to nullify a lease with H.A. Mapes, Inc. and C.N. Brown Company of a six-foot wide utility and pedestrian easement running over and between the common boundary of 51 and 61 Main Street to provide access to a parking facility. The town no longer needs the easement because the town now owns the property.

Yes: 6,294; No: 798; Blanks: 500

Question G (Transfer of land to Neighborhood Housing Trust)

Citizens voted yes on this measure, which allows the town to transfer town-owned land by the skate park on Factory Lane to the Neighborhood Housing Trust in order to build several residences.

Yes: 5,216; No: 1,864; Blanks: 512

Question H (Zoning ordinance amendment)

Citizens voted yes on this measure, which enables the owners of approximately 120 nonconforming buildings in Kennebunk’s Shoreland Zone and Resource Protection Area to apply to the Planning Board on a case-by-case basis to allow their buildings to be demolished and reconstructed in order to make resiliency-related improvements, should they so desire.

Yes: 4,434; No: 2,443; Blanks: 716