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Selectmen adopt revised default budget for 2025 after ambulance-contract clarification
Summary
After staff and legal review clarified that a one-time ambulance expenditure could not be included in a default operating budget, the board adopted a revised default budget of $33,650,063.
The Wolfeboro Board of Selectmen on Jan. 8 adopted a revised default municipal budget for 2025 after town staff clarified an earlier draft excluded a one‑time ambulance contract payment from the default calculation.
Town administration said staff and legal counsel reviewed the provisional default and determined the ambulance item under discussion was a warrant article (a one‑time appropriation) and therefore should not be included when computing the statutory default operating budget. Following that clarification, the revised default budget presented to the board totaled $33,650,063.
Selectmen voted to adopt the revised default figure and authorized staff to provide the number to the Budget Committee, which had requested the update for its Jan. 9 meeting. The manager said the town will continue to finalize revenues and the proposed operating budget while working through union contract details and other year‑end items.
Selectmen noted the revised default differs from the proposed operating budget pending at the Budget Committee, and the town will publish the final numbers in the meeting record and on town materials ahead of the warrant season.
