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Select Board asks for tanker lease payment from free cash; residents question budgeting practice
Summary
Town Meeting approved a $97,034 appropriation for the second year of a fire department tanker lease, paid from free cash; residents questioned use of free cash for operating needs and whether the expense should have been in the adopted budget.
Town Meeting approved $97,034 to pay for the second year of a fire department tanker lease, funding the payment from free cash. The item touched off a debate about whether free cash is an appropriate source for what some residents described as an operating cost.
Opponents said the lease had been included in prior budgets and that asking free‑cash funding…
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