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Winooski council narrows FY26 budget priorities, keeps equity advisor, trims dispatch contingency and re‑allocates items to reserves
Summary
Council members narrowed FY26 budget choices: they will keep a CCRPC equity-advisor contribution, remove the proposed FY26 operating increase for regional dispatch, move some items to reserves and defer the youth interventionist decision until after staff evaluates the new DLO role.
The Winooski City Council held a lengthy budget deliberation following department presentations and reached a set of preliminary decisions to shape the FY26 budget warning.
Lede/nut graf: Councilors debated public-safety priorities, capital funding and community programs and agreed on a package of adjustments for the FY26 budget warning: they will retain funding to support a regional equity advisor (the CCRPC contribution), remove the one‑year operating increase proposed for regional dispatch and move several items to reserve funding while deferring final decisions on a youth interventionist position and some capital…
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