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Rutland Select Board advances departmental budgets and approves ballot request for recreation depreciation
Summary
The Town of Rutland Select Board on Dec. 10 approved recreation, fire, highway and police budgets for voter consideration, agreed to hold a $150,000 hotel‑fund carryover for the police budget and voted to put a recreation depreciation increase on the ballot to build pool reserves.
The Town of Rutland Select Board met on Dec. 10 to review departmental budgets for the fiscal year beginning July 1 and approved several budgets for presentation to voters.
At the meeting the board approved the recreation budget as amended to add a municipal‑retirement line of $4,500 and a childcare contribution line of $540. Recreation official Mike Rowe told the board his department projects roughly $27,000 in program income, with the pool and concessions providing most of that revenue. Rowe said he proposes converting his position to full time and funding a $50,000 salary line partly by shifting $20,000 previously allocated for maintenance into payroll while keeping a maintenance‑labor line to cover…
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