Government & Politics
Selectmen Pass $46.8M Town Budget Proposal, Cut $450K from Town Administrator Spending Plan
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The Board of Selectmen unanimously voted Monday night on a budget for non-school district spending only slightly higher (by $137,438) than the budget passed last year. Total town spending (aside from the education budget, which is more than twice as big) would be $46,835,834. That increase in spending, if approved by the Board of Finance and Representative Town Meeting, would amount to a slight tax increase of perhaps 0.01 or 0.02 mills (town officials did not have exact figures Monday night). The school superintendent’s proposed budget, with a 2 percent increase, would cause a larger bump up in taxes. Countering the increased spending, growth in the grand list since the previous year, almost 1 percent, would reduce the size of the tax increase.