The Wiscasset School Committee’s $9.4 million budget offer will go to voters intact June 13. About two dozen voters, including committee members, made no changes as they went through the numbers at Monday night’s special town meeting.

The proposal is about five percent higher than in 2016-17; property taxpayers’ share is flat.

The meeting in Wiscasset Middle High School’s Stover Auditorium lasted about 35 minutes. All articles passed overwhelmingly, some with one vote in opposition. The closest vote was the secret ballot one to raise $2,479,362 more than the $1,069,725 the state funding model calls for. That article passed 19-5.

Monday’s results maintain a proposed $69,500 toward the $1.75 million energy project also on next month’s ballot. Committee member Eugene Stover was glad. “I’m very pleased. I just hope they all go to the polls and vote the same way,” Stover said in an interview afterward.

Superintendent of Schools Heather Wilmot said it was great to see the support for the budget. She and Stover both noted the turnout was higher than last year. “We’re moving ahead,” Stover said. Wilmot thought her reminder announcements helped. She has already set up new ones to go out via text and email ahead of the June vote at the polls.

In April, the committee’s vice chairman Glen Craig had said he might get up at the special town meeting and argue against funding the $69,500 because voters have yet to decide on the project. Asked Monday why he chose not to, he said: “Out of respect for the board’s majority vote (and) out of respect for the process.” Craig, who supports the project, said he would have given his position on the $69,500 if voters had asked.

Katharine Martin-Savage asked about any effect closing one of the two schools would have on payments. “What happens ... if we’re down to only one school in Wiscasset ... Is there any method of reducing the amount of money or shortening up the ... term?” A closure would not change the obligation to make the payments, Wilmot said.

Martin-Savage and other voters had other questions on articles. She asked what some of the language meant and how much of the $2.06 million for special education goes toward placing students outside the department. Wilmot responded, $136,000. A placement happens when a student with disabilities has needs the department can’t meet, she said.

Resident David Fischer asked what the department is doing to lower its cost per student, through consolidation or other means. He said it has gone from about $17,000 in 2014-15 to about $20,000 for 2017-18. “At what point do we just have to stop? At $25,000 per student? At 30, 35? How do we continue on this path? I just don’t see a way that we can sustain it.” The state’s tuition rate is thousands less than Wiscasset’s cost per student, Fischer said.

Resident Todd Souza responded, since enrollment is not at capacity, tuition students aren’t increasing costs to run the schools; and he said those students are bringing in revenue, which lowers the cost per student. Wilmot said if a student’s needs surpass the tuition, the department bills for those added costs.