Oak Bluffs voters approved a nearly $25 million budget at Tuesday night’s annual town meeting. But the budget contained cuts to services and personnel, and if passed alone, town administrator Michael Dutton explained, would leave paving undone and no salaries for a new town finance director, two teaching aides at the Oak Bluffs school and other expenses. So voters moved to place on the May 26 ballot two separate override questions to restore those cuts.

Voters also approved an engineering study of sewering along the Lagoon, paid for with money from the wastewater retained earnings account. The meeting also approved $632,000 in Community Preservation Act spending to support rental assistance, community housing projects, lantern restoration and engineering studies for both the degraded Sunset Lake area and the frequently flooded Niantic Park.

Voters approved all five articles on the special town meeting warrant, including transferring $65,558 from the stabilization fund to supplement underfunded line items and a further $20,000 to remove contaminated soils from Circuit avenue extension.

Finally, voters approved placing the Denniston House within the Cottage City Historic District. The building is not contiguous with the district. After the meeting Island Affordable Housing Fund director Ewell Hopkins said that the decision did not affect his organization’s strategy to sell the building and that he welcomed having more input from the town.

A full report of the meeting will appear in Friday’s Gazette.