A Special Town Meeting tentatively scheduled for the beginning of March will not be held due to a legislative delay at the state level.

Town Administrator Mike McCue made the recommendation at the Selectmen’s Monday meeting.

“I’ve come to the determination that it is most beneficial for the town of Rochester to forgo this Special Town Meeting,” McCue said.

Selectmen had hoped residents would vote on an agenda item at the Special Town Meeting that would have lowered the quorum needed to hold Annual Town Meetings, if approved.

At the previous Annual Town Meeting it wasn’t discovered until well after the event that a quorum wasn’t present, negating votes on the town budget and other agenda items.

Held on June 8, the meeting required the participation of 100 registered voters. Nearly 30 days after the town conducted business Town Clerk Naida Parker discovered that 91 voters were present.

The quorum had been increased from 75 to 100 for Annual Town Meetings in 2014.

Currently, special legislation is working its way through Beacon Hill to uphold those votes.

McCue explained that because of the delay a Special Town Meeting would be held at most one or two months before the spring Annual Town Meeting. If the quorum agenda item passed, it would then go to the state’s attorney general’s office for approval. That process, he said, could take up to three months.

“We can’t change it in time for the Annual Town Meeting,” McCue said.

McCue noted that the Special Town Meeting did include financial requests for some town departments, but he was able to work around those issues without a meeting.

“There were some financial concerns I had for funding particular departments,” he said, adding that reserve funds were used after he conferred with the Finance Committee.

The Special Town Meeting was originally set for Nov. 30. McCue postponed that meeting until late winter because Annual Town Meeting votes hadn’t been ratified by the state.