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Council narrows Heritage Trail match and reassigns capital funds to a new road reserve
Summary
Councilors reduced the town's requested Heritage Trail commitment to the grant-required match amount and agreed to reallocate prior earmarks into a new road-capital reserve, adding $150,000 in this budget iteration to seed future road work.
Councilors reviewed the draft capital-improvement plan and asked staff to clarify the Heritage Trail funding request after grant changes. Staff explained the grant the town recently received covers the majority of a planned Heritage Trail phase; the town's required match was clarified in-session and council agreed to fund the match amount rather than the larger placeholder previously shown.
Councilors also agreed to shift previously earmarked Heritage Trail funds into a new road-capital reserve to address pressing pavement and culvert needs, and directed finance to include a $150,000 contribution to the road reserve in the revised budget. Members said the change would allow the town both to honor the Heritage Trail grant match and to seed a fund for urgent road and culvert repairs while preserving flexibility for future grant matches.
Staff will return with a cleaned-up capital schedule showing the narrowed Heritage Trail town match and the new road-capital reserve, with project sequencing and estimated timelines for Pinehurst, Wilbur Hill and other high-priority road sections.
