SAUGUS — Amid confusion over protocols for the Zoom internet meeting, the Saugus Town Meeting members plowed through the rest of a 14-article warrant Tuesday night, passing all but two, and postponing of those indefinitely.

Town meeting members passed the recommendation of the Finance Committee to appropriate $7,454,392 for the water enterprise fund.  — a measure that occupied nearly an hour’s worth of time. 

Of that money, $360,947 would cover salaries, $6,308,235 expenses, $90,000 for capital outlay, $654,440 for indirect costs and $40,770 for transfer costs. 

Most of that money would come from the Water Enterprise Fund revenue, and none from retained earnings, Town Manager Scott Crabtree said. Town Meeting member Peter Manoogian had introduced an amendment to the article that would have cut almost $465,000 from that figure, but it was voted down.

The two articles on which action was postponed dealt with the transfer of funds from last year to this year.  

Also passed Tuesday was an article

During Monday’s Zoom meeting, Town Meeting members voted 27 to 18 against a motion that would have allocated $300,000 from the town’s stabilization fund — an economic aid in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic — to the School Department’s current budget of $29,575,250. 

However, Town Meeting members later voted 41 to 2 approving the town’s FY21 budget of $63,873,739. 

Town Manager Scott Crabtree said it would be difficult to predict the coronavirus’ economic fallout. 

“These are tough decisions to make,” he said.