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Simsbury Selectmen trim budget requests, set aside contingency and approve AARP grant application
Summary
At a special Board of Selectmen budget workshop, members narrowed spending, moved a planning vehicle request to a lower-price option, cut some outside-agency asks and approved applying for AARP Community Challenge grant funds tied to senior services and a public gathering project.
The Board of Selectmen held a special budget workshop to review proposed 2025–26 operating and capital budgets, make preliminary spending choices and authorize submission of two AARP Community Challenge grant applications.
The session, led by First Selectman Wendy (First Selectman) and Town Manager Mark Nelson, focused on narrowing the town manager’s budget ahead of the March Board of Finance deadline and on specific line items staff and board members identified as candidates for trimming or reclassification. The board approved an AARP Community Challenge grant application and a related small-capacity microgrant to support aging-and-disability outreach and a proposed outdoor “solar table” seating node intended to support intergenerational use near Eno Memorial Hall.
Board members spent the meeting moving through line items in detail. They agreed to move a planned municipal vehicle purchase from a $44,000 request down to a $30,000 planning-vehicle purchase and reclassify where the line is…
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