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Council votes: key budget totals approved as meeting continues to next week for some items
Summary
The Warren Town Council approved the bulk of departmental budget totals and several line‑item adjustments and carried a small number of items forward. The meeting recorded motions to approve totals for general government, police, public works, debt service and the town’s overall expenditure figure for the current budget process.
The Town Council recorded a series of formal votes on departmental budget totals and related motions during the session. Several items were approved; a few were carried forward for more information.
Key votes recorded during the meeting (motions passed unless noted):
- General government total approved at $5,503,848. - Town offices total approved at $1,498,763 (carried forward in place as a placeholder pending changes to recreation and senior center input). - Treasurer/Tax Collector total approved at $283,153 (included an approved $10,000 increase to outside services to audit special-revenue funds). - Tax Assessor total approved at $200,408. - Financial administration total approved at $483,561. - Grants and contributions carried forward; the council approved a placeholder total of $306,019 for now. - Fire safety total: council approved $1,315,185 at the meeting but also directed staff to return next week with audited actuals and projections; the item remains under review in practice. - Police total approved at $3,123,901 after line-item adjustments for wages, communications and IT. - Total public safety (combined) approved at $3,529,003.21. - Public works total approved at $2,624,792. - Debt service total approved at $3,324,142; council also approved a $1,000,000 appropriation for a lawsuit settlement/judgment bond. - Council approved a motion setting the town’s preliminary total expenditures at $19,585,630 (motion passed). The session showed a preliminary tax-rate increase calculation of about 3.93%.
Several items were explicitly continued to the next meeting for more detail (chiefly the fire safety section and recreation/senior center line items); in other cases the council approved totals while noting adjustments could be made before final budget adoption.
