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Some Tighter Parking Regulations and Higher Merchant Fees for Parking Permits Proposed

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At this coming Monday’s meeting of the Board of Selectmen, the board will consider a proposal to raise the small annual fee for employee parking on town lots for merchants with stores near the lots. The board will also consider a proposal to limit the amount of time vehicles can be parked at certain spots. Both proposals came from Town Administrator Kathleen Buch in memos dated Sept. 5 and addressed to the town parking authority, which is the Board of Selectmen in Darien. In the memo about merchant fees, Buch wrote:

The merchant parking permit fee has not been raised in over a decade, while we have increased commuter permit fees more than once over that time.

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Town Administrator Proposes Budget Increase of 3.89% to Board of Selectmen

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In the first public stage of the town budget process, Town Administrator Kathleen Buch proposed to the Board of Selectmen on Monday a $48.9 million town budget, a spending increase of 3.89 percent. The budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2019-2020 is subject to changes made first by the Board of Selectmen, then the Board of Finance, and finally by the Representative Town Meeting, which is expected to adopt the in late spring. The town fiscal years run from July 1 to June 30. —You can see the entire Town Administrator’s Proposed Budget here on the town government website. Buch proposed the hiring of three civilian dispatchers to free up more police officers from dispatch duties, and the hiring of a maintenance worker for the Parks and Recreation Department.