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Select Board approves four default‑budget line‑item transfers to cover wages, IT, drainage and fireworks
Summary
The board authorized four line‑item transfers under RSA 32:10 to move money within the default operating budget for 2025 to cover nonunion wage adjustments, consolidate telephone/security under IT, a small drainage allocation and funding for Independence Day fireworks.
Under RSA 32:10 the Wolfeboro Board of Selectmen approved four line‑item transfers within the town's default 2025 general fund budget to cover several shortfalls and reclassifications.
The transfers, presented by Town Manager Jim Pigno and Finance Director Sam Kelly, were described as internal budget moves that stay within the bottom line of the town's default budget. The transfers were: $836,509 for municipal operations (to cover wage adjustments for nonunion staff, ambulance service, groomer lease and public safety building operations); $53,355 to consolidate phone and security systems into the information‑technology budget; $12,000 moved to highways and streets for drainage pipe/structures; and $2,500 moved to cover Independence Day fireworks.
Finance staff and the town manager said the transfers do not add new line items and are funded by reallocating existing appropriations within the default budget (the budget approved at the deliberative session after the default/override process). Board members asked questions about specific encumbrances, such as sewer fund contract encumbrances that skew year‑to‑date percentages, and were briefed that a number of line‑item transfers were needed to reflect contract obligations and adjusted staffing costs. The transfers were taken one at a time and each motion passed by majority vote.
(Ending) Town staff said the transfers and the recent collective bargaining agreement funding will alter how the next finance report looks and that auditors will be on site next week for the year‑end audit.
