In their role as the municipal planning agency, Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members have unanimously endorsed four proposed capital spending proposals, which total more than $10.4 million.

Voting to endorse the spending proposals at a March 5 P&Z session were P&Z Chairman Don Mitchell, Jim Swift, Barbara Manville, Corinne Cox, and Dennis Bloom.

Before the vote, Mitchell said that he does not see any aspect of the proposed spending that violates applicable town land use regulations. Such spending proposals are subject to much local governmental review before they appear on the ballot at the annual town budget referendum in April, he noted.

On April 28, voters at the annual town budget referendum will be asked to approve the proposed town government and public education budgets for fiscal 2020-21, as well as the four capital spending proposals.

The four capital spending proposals approved by the P&Z include:

* $300,000 for the planning, design, and engineering work related to the proposed renovation to the heating-ventilation-and-cooling (HVAC) system at Hawley School, which is a kindergarten through fourth grade school at 29 Church Hill Road. Bonding would cover the work proposed for the 2020-21 fiscal year.

* $7,541.933 for upgrades to the town’s emergency radio system used by local emergency services units. Bonding would cover the project slated for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 fiscal years.

* $750,000 for the planning, design, engineering, construction, and reconstruction of town roads. The fiscal 2020-21 project would be covered through bonding.

* $1,829,963 for the planning, design, engineering, construction, and reconstruction of the sanitary sewer network at the town-owned Fairfield Hills core campus. Funding would come from bonding in the 2020-21 fiscal year and grant funding.

The capital spending projects are listed as proposed expenditures in the town’s Capital Improvement Plan, a planning document that lists major public projects that are not included in the municipal and education operating budgets.