HAVERHILL — During Saturday’s floor meeting, voters rejected an article that would have adopted an SB2 form of voting, which would have allowed for ballot voting on all town issues on the second Tuesday of March.

Instead, the town will continue to hold in-person floor meetings. Of the town’s 2,944 registered voters, 273 voters, or about 9%, attended Saturday’s Town Meeting, Town Moderator Peter Tice said via email Monday.

Those gathered on Saturday also rejected a petitioned article that would have adopted a town manager form of government. The vote came just one year after voters narrowly decided to eliminate the position of town manager.

Voters approved a town budget of $5.23 million, as well as three petitioned articles seeking funding for Woodsville: $163,000 for road paving, $128,000 for the Fire Department of Woodsville; and $336,000 for the Highway Department of Woodsville.

They also approved an amended version of a petitioned article to appropriate $100,000 for a forensic audit of the town’s general fund beginning in 2019 and “and moving forward in time from there.”

Voters approved $50,000 for a contingency fund for 2025 for “unanticipated expenses that may arise,” as well as $322,000 for Brushwood Road reconstruction.

During Saturday’s annual school district meeting, voters indefinitely postponed an article asking whether they supported a school budget cap, which would have required that the School Board keep the budget below $20,323 per pupil.

They approved all other school articles as written, including a school budget of $17.7 million, as well as the costs associated with a collective bargaining agreement with the Haverhill Cooperative Education Association, including $192,000 in the first year.