Tisbury voters will have to convene for at least one more night, after Tuesday night’s meeting failed to even begin consideration of the 37 articles on its annual town meeting warrant.

Instead, the meeting spent three hours working its way through the warrant for the special town meeting which was supposed to be held last week, but was postponed for lack of a quorum.

In the end, despite vigorous debate and minor amendments on several of the 16 articles on the special town meeting warrant, voters approved them all.

The most far-reaching action of the night was the agreement to four articles, put by the selectmen, which pave the way for Tisbury to become a “green community,” thus putting itself in line for state grants of at least $125,000 a year, and perhaps as much as $1 million.

The room overwhelmingly approved the first of the three articles amending zoning bylaws — an epic article which ran to three pages on the warrant — setting the ground rules for the installation of large-scale solar photovoltaic power generation in Tisbury.

The second of the articles provided for “as-of-right” siting of such installations within the business-zoned area along State Road, meaning that solar generation proposals could not be denied approval, although they could be subject to site plan review.

The third guaranteed expedited permitting — within a year of application.

But it was the fourth article which was the big one, and the most contentious. It proposed the adoption of the state’s so-called “Stretch” construction code, which is designed to make buildings 20 per cent more energy efficient than the base building code, but at significant cost.

Various estimates of the amount which would be added to the cost of an average home were advanced by proponents and opponents of the measure, from $3,000 to $15,000.

In other business, the meeting twice defied Tisbury’s selectmen, voting to begin putting money aside at the rate of $100,000 a year for the currently-unfunded health benefits of current town employees and to begin putting more money aside for the benefits of future hires.

They also voted to impose fines of $300 a day on the owners of vacant and inadequately maintained properties.