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Brentwood select board asks departments for itemized budget backup, sets level-funding as policy goal
Summary
The Select Board voted to require departments to provide itemized budget backups (employee-level wage detail and line-item justifications) and adopted a nonbinding goal of trying to level-fund the town operating budget as it moves into the 2026 budget hearings.
The Brentwood Select Board voted to require departments to provide detailed, line-item backup for their 2026 budget submissions and declared a nonbinding goal that the town’s operating budget be as close to level funding as possible.
At the meeting the board reviewed a proposed checklist of budget backup items circulated by the budget committee, including for each department: account name, employee name, position, employee group type, current salary or wage rate, recommended percent increase, hours per week for hourly employees, stipends, retirement eligibility…
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