Groton - The Town Council will try to restore money cut from the Groton Long Point Association's police budget, voting at its next meeting to spend $128,000 from its $350,000 contingency account.

The appropriation would then go to the town's Representative Town Meeting, which last spring voted to strip the subdivision of the $208,000 it had initially requested, the equivalent of what it would cost the town to police the area with its own force.

"We do pay our fair share of taxes, and we receive very few services," said Groton Long Point Association President Bob Congdon, speaking at the Town Council's Committee of the Whole meeting Tuesday night. "This was one of the very few services we did receive."

Most councilors said the RTM's budget cut was unfair because it did not slash the funding it provides to Groton City, another subdivision with its own police department.

Seven councilors voted to bring the supplemental appropriate up for a vote at the council's next regular meeting. Councilor Deb Peruzzotti, who said she thought it was unwise to spend such a large portion of the contingency budget during the first quarter of the fiscal year, abstained from the vote while Councilor Bruce Flax voted against it.

- Matt Collette