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Fairfield budget committee sets tentative Feb. meetings, seeks simpler system for budget questions
Summary
The Board of Finance budget committee tentatively scheduled two February meetings and agreed to pursue technology and process changes to make advance budget questions and department responses easier to manage.
Tom Harris, chief fiscal officer for the town of Fairfield, opened the Board of Finance budget committee meeting and described the group’s work on the upcoming 2025–26 budget process. “This is Tom Harris, chief fiscal officer for the town of Fairfield. And I called the meeting of the Board of Finance budget committee to order,” Harris said at the start of the session.
Committee members agreed to place two tentative subcommittee meetings on the calendar to support the budget cycle: a meeting on Feb. 10, 2025, at 7:00 p.m., and a backup meeting on Feb. 27, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. The group said those dates will be communicated to Jen (staff coordinator) and can be canceled if they are not needed.
The bulk of the meeting focused on streamlining how board members submit questions in advance of department hearings and how department answers are routed back to members. Kevin Stark, a member of…
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