Burke residents had to decide whether to pay back the loan for the community building at 3.3% interest for fifteen years or at 3.46% over twenty years. 

The bank required the residents to vote on this issue before they approved the loan.  Sam Sanders, Selectboard Chairman, said, "I don't know it's a banking regulation.  They don't figure we know enough to know what we want to pay I guess."  Sanders hopes that the voters will approve the plan with the lowest interest rate which would be approximately $20,000.00 per year (roughly one cent extra per tax payer).