After one night at spring Town Meeting, Wareham's voters passed numerous articles to fund projects around town, voted in favor of a development rights bylaw, and overwhelmingly supported the town not be allowed to lease out a town-owned building used by the school department.

Voters passed expenditures of nearly $150,000 of community preservation funds for restoration and repair projects around town.

They voted to spend $25,000 for the preservation of the Old Town Offices, $29,000 to renovate the Wareham Little League complex, $59,000 to remove and replace the underground plumbing in one building at Agawam Village and $35,000 to provide safe flooring in Agawam Village.

The community preservation funds must be used for historic preservation, affordable housing, and preservation of open or recreation facilities, among other similar uses.

The state's Community Preservation Act was adopted by Wareham when voters ruled favorably for it in April 2002. A three percent surcharge is levied on residential property above the first $100,000 of assessed property. The state partially matches the locally raised funds.

Wareham Little League President Quirino doCanto said the Little League Complex on Charge Pond Road was built on a landfill, the remnants of which are beginning to rise up, "bringing shards of glass where the kids walk through and play."

He said the league is proposing to use the money to put a screening over the old surface, fix one of the fields that is currently unusable and repair fencing at the complex.

"Safety is our main issue, for the kids to be safe," doCanto said.

Voters also passed two environmental-friendly articles that promote sustainability and cut long-term costs for the town. The first was Article 3 in the Special Warrant, which transferred $103,000 from free cash (the remaining money a town has from the operations of previous year, such as unspent budget items, of which the town had $874,000 before Town Meeting) to pay for LED lighting to be used in the Police Station, Town Hall, Multi-Service Center, Municipal Maintenance building and the Library.

Town Administrator Derek Sullivan said the annual savings from the lights would be $51,000. He said the purchase would be partially subsidized by NStar, and the cost without them would be $185,000.

Voters unanimously passed Article 24 for the purchase of a grease separation system called Greasesilla for the Water Pollution Control District. The system would allow the sewer plant to reduce costs, create oil as a re-sellable product and bring cleaner wastewater into the plant for full treatment.

The $400,000 system will be paid for from retained earnings within the Water Pollution Control District and town officials said the system would pay for itself after four years.

360 voters were in attendance at the start of the Town Meeting and the first article that will go before voters on Tuesday night are the balanced budget and override budget articles. They were drawn by lottery toward the end of last night's meeting, but voters passed a motion put forth by Town Moderator Claire Smith to move it to Tuesday night, to have ample time to discuss the articles.