SALISBURY, Vt. (AP) — Voters in the town of Salisbury have decided not to fund the local mosquito control district this year.

They voted at town meeting this week against appropriating $25,411 to the Brandon-Leicester-Salisbury-Goshen Insect Control District, the Rutland Herald reported.

Salisbury is the only member town in the district that asks voters to decide on the funding.

At the same time, the Vermont Endangered Species Committee is also recommending that the district be required to get a special permit for spraying pesticides that may cause harm to endangered bats.

“It’s not going to shut the insect control district down from spraying, it’s merely a starting point to have a conversation on how we can mitigate some of these harmful impacts to these bats,” said Mason Overstreet, staff attorney and assistant professor of law at the Environmental Advocacy Clinic at Vermont Law School.

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