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Votes at a glance: Brentwood Budget Committee Nov. 10, 2025
Summary
The committee took final votes on multiple departmental budgets, approving the planning board, cemetery, welfare, code enforcement, town administrator and finance budgets. Tallies where recorded are included below.
At its Nov. 10 meeting the Brentwood Municipal Budget Committee approved the following items (tallies and notes drawn from the meeting transcript):
- Minutes (Oct. 27, 2025): Motion to approve minutes with a spelling correction; motion carried with one abstention (recorded during the meeting).
- Planning board budget: Approved as amended at $119,548 (3% 13/39 split). Vote 4-3.
- Cemetery budget: Approved (committee recorded $13,538 approximated in transcript); vote 4-3.
- Welfare budget: Approved (total shown in transcript approximately $21,124); chair recorded passage.
- Code enforcement budget: Approved (BUDCOM-approved total $108,090); recorded 5-2 vote following discussion about handshake salary arrangements and driveway-inspection fee structure.
- Town administrator budget: Approved unanimously (no salary increases reported for the town administrator or assistant-to-TA lines).
- Finance budget: Approved at $70,000 with a committee recommendation that the treasurer/deputy lines be converted from stipends to hourly pay (treasurer recommended baseline: 12 hours/week). Motion and second recorded; chair announced passage.
Notes: The committee repeatedly distinguished between the committee—s authority to set bottom-line appropriations and the Select Board—s authority to set the timing and awarding of personnel raises. Several votes matched Select Board proposals; in a few cases the committee altered the bottom-line totals to reflect its own calculations.
