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Brookfield selectboard narrows 2025 budget lines, trims nonprofit requests
Summary
Selectboard tentatively added a $325–$550 credit-card reader purchase to clerk operations, set townhouse cleaning at $1,500 and cut a $2,000 meal-site request to $500 while agreeing to consider heritage and library warrant articles after more details.
The Brookfield Selectboard spent the bulk of its meeting refining draft budget lines for 2025, singling out a handful of operational costs and community funding requests that will appear in the warrant materials.
The most immediate change the board agreed to put into the proposed operating budget was a one-time purchase for the town clerk’s office to accept over‑the‑counter credit‑card payments. The clerk’s presentation identified two vendor options, a one‑time terminal cost of about $325 or a higher model at $550; the board agreed to add $325–$500 to the clerk’s budget and said customers will absorb the customary transaction fees. ‘‘The only cost is the…
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