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Uxbridge budget message: town manager projects 5.29% increase, flags health and pension pressures
Summary
Town Manager Steve presented the Town of Uxbridge’s FY26 budget message, projecting a 5.29% increase driven largely by employee benefits, retirement assessments and special‑education costs; he outlined revenue assumptions and options for capital funding and free‑cash policy changes.
Town Manager Steve delivered the Town of Uxbridge’s FY26 budget message to the joint finance committee on April 9, laying out the process, revenue assumptions and pressures that produced a preliminary 5.29% spending increase for the coming year. "The budget is balanced at... and that is a 5.29% overall increase," Steve said during his presentation of revenue forecasts and departmental assumptions.
Steve outlined the steps that produced the draft budget: departmental level‑service requests, capital request reviews, and consultation with local and state revenue forecasts. He said the town projects modest new growth and a small increase in state aid on the governor’s House 1 figures, and is…
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