At the annual town meeting on May 11, the 75 residents in attendance voted to discontinue funding for the resident state trooper.

Sergeant Jenko of the Connecticut State Police, above, presented the case for a town to keep its resident trooper, citing the importance of having an officer who knows the town, is able to determine the likeliest suspects in the event of a crime and can turn suspects into informants.

Mike Sconyers of the Board of Finance, speaking at the annual town meeting.

Mike Sconyers, chairman of Norfolk’s Board of Finance, took the floor and said Norfolk could not afford to continue funding the resident trooper position if the state reduces its subsidy, as the current budget proposes.

The annual cost of maintaining a resident state trooper is currently $183,000. The town has traditionally paid 70 percent, or $130,000, while the state has paid the remaining 30 percent. Governor Malloy has proposed that towns should pay the full cost.

The vote was solidly in favor of discontinuing the resident state trooper program in Norfolk.

Other business included allowing the town to issue notes for $500,000 to bridge any gap between now and receipt of fiscal 2015 taxes and raising the annual contribution to the town’s capital reserve fund from one third to one half of a mill.

Deborah Bell was re-elected to the Northwestern Regional Seven Board of Education, and residents also authorized the town to spend $20,000 from the capital non-recurring expenditures account to help buy a cab and chassis to be used by the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department for a utility truck.