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Old Home Day organizers ask Town of Charlton to increase annual funding
Summary
Mike Lally, chair of the Old Home Day Committee Fund, asked the Town of Charlton Finance Committee to raise the event's baseline operating allocation for 2025, citing rising costs for bands, tents and fireworks.
Mike Lally, chair of the Old Home Day Committee Fund, asked the Town of Charlton Finance Committee on an evening meeting to increase the event's baseline town funding for 2025, saying the committee's current allotted budget is no longer sufficient.
Lally said the committee begins each year with “a budget of about 5 and a half” and requested “up to 25” for 2025; the transcript did not specify units for those figures. He said the event’s total costs this past year “came to about 25” and that fireworks alone “almost [cost] 10” (units not specified in the meeting record). “Our funding and our costs have gone escalated like everything…
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