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Council reviews budget addendum; debate centers on funding a chaplain and staffing changes
Summary
City Manager Kirk Biotti presented a budget addendum with no bottom-line tax change; the council discussed adding funding for a fire department chaplain ($45,000), a project manager position and the fate of a police crime-analyst position that was removed from this year’s budget.
City Manager Kirk Biotti presented an addendum to the fiscal year 2025-26 budget at the June 23 meeting and told the Laconia City Council the document makes internal reallocations without increasing the tax amount to be raised.
Biotti said the addendum corrects several internal-service and maintenance shortfalls and keeps the overall tax impact unchanged. He described two half‑year positions that had been budgeted: a project manager…
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