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Brentwood select board trims 2025 budget, cuts increase to low single digits after line-by-line review
Summary
After a line-by-line review and multiple motions, the Brentwood Select Board reduced a preliminary 12%–13% budget increase to roughly an 8% increase by approving cuts and reallocations across departments, approving a new town administrator salary, and agreeing to several encumbrances.
The Brentwood Town Select Board voted on a package of line-item cuts and reallocations intended to lower a preliminary 12.1% budget increase to the mid- to low-single-digit range for 2025.
Board members said the fiscal work started when a preliminary budget showing a roughly 12–13% increase arrived in the fall. Over multiple motions the board reopened the entire budget and approved a series of targeted reductions, trimming underspent or historically overbudgeted lines across general government, police, fire, highway and other departments.
The board reopened the budget by motion (moved, seconded, passed by voice). In the executive office the board shifted $1,000 between lines and agreed to a net $4,100 reduction there. The town-administrator salary was set at $100,000 (a reduction versus the prior line) and the board approved the revised town-administrator line in the budget that reflects that salary. The finance budget was adjusted to…
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