The Woodstock town spending freeze is over. On Saturday morning, August 1, town supervisor Bill McKenna announced that the other members of the town board had come in and signed the vouchers. Everything has been paid and will be paid.

Councilmembers had previously refused to sign because they could not get a breakdown between emergency and non-emergency expenses.

“We have asked that the vouchers be separated out to only include emergency funds necessary,” councilmember Bennet Ratcliff had said abouut what had been presented at an earlier meeting. “This is a consolidated amount of vouchers and doesn’t include which ones are emergency funds and which ones are non-emergency funds.”

“Every one of them,” McKenna said when asked which were considered emergency. “I instituted the spending free

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