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Select Board hears legal‑budget analysis and agrees to prioritize targeted forensic audit RFP
Summary
Finance staff reported large legal‑line overruns tied to capital projects and development reviews; board agreed to prepare a phased RFP for a targeted forensic audit of revolving accounts and flagged the need for clearer legal‑cost coding on capital projects.
Town finance staff briefed the Select Board on Sept. 22 about this year’s legal spending and approaches to recouping off‑retainer legal costs. Staff said that when work outside the retainer (for easements, contract reviews and capital projects) is tallied, the town would have paid roughly $47,000 more than the prior non‑retainer billing, validating the retainer’s value for routine legal needs.
Finance staff and town…
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