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Selectmen agree to draft joint letter opposing House Bill 475 over default-budget changes
Summary
The board discussed House Bill 475, which would change default budget calculations for municipalities, and agreed to draft a board letter and individual letters to state legislators and the committee urging removal from the consent calendar or motions to table or refer.
Board members discussed House Bill 475, legislation that board members said would change how default municipal budgets are calculated. Town Manager Greg explained that, as drafted, the bill would prevent towns from including certain positions or post-adoption salary/benefit increases in a default budget — for example, vacancies the town has been unable to fill or performance-based salary adjustments made after a budget is adopted.
Greg said the bill could “impede…
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