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Budget committee approves minutes, agrees tentative schedule for budget hearings
Summary
At the Sept. 8 meeting the Brentwood Budget Committee approved previous meeting minutes and site-walk records, received brief select-board and school-board updates and tentatively scheduled the first budget review session for Sept. 29 at 6 p.m.
The Brentwood Budget Committee on Sept. 8 voted to accept three sets of minutes/site-walk records, heard brief updates from the select board and school board, and set a tentative date for the next budget-review meeting.
The committee approved: - the minutes of the Aug. 18, 2025 regular session (motion and second recorded; transcript indicates "Aye" and noted abstentions; vote tallies not fully specified in the record), - the Aug. 21, 2025 site walk with the highway department (motion and second; transcript records ayes and abstentions; detailed tallies not fully specified), and - the Sept. 4, 2025 site walk with the police department (motion and second; transcript records ayes and abstentions; detailed tallies not fully specified).
Select-board update and school finances
Select Board member Letty told the committee that the town administrator had resigned and that the new finance director, Julie Stevens, had started. Dan (identified as the school-board representative) said the school submitted its year-end financials to the Department of Education; the unassigned fund balance came in higher than projected (about $249,000, the school representative said) after purchase-order closeouts and end-of-year payroll adjustments.
Scheduling and next meetings
Committee members discussed timing of department budget submissions (initial departmental appropriation requests are due Sept. 15 at 4 p.m., the committee was told) and tentative committee meeting dates. The group tentatively set its next full meeting for Sept. 29 at 6 p.m. for budget-review work, with the understanding the select board will confirm its own schedule when it meets.
Ending
Committee members agreed to circulate departmental submissions to the finance director and to proceed with the Grange Building site walk separately from the broader list of department site walks; the chair adjourned the meeting after the items were completed.
