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Acton finance committee reviews FY26 first-quarter budget, flags timing issues in enterprise funds
Summary
Budget director Ellie Anderson told the Finance Committee the town is on pace for typical first-quarter collections, reporting $29.79 million in property tax receipts and noting timing and debt-service payments skew some enterprise fund percentages; no major adverse trends were identified.
Ellie Anderson, the Town of Acton's budget director, told the Finance Committee on the FY26 first-quarter report that, through September, the town had collected $29,787,000 in property taxes and just over $1,000,000 in local receipts.
Anderson said state aid collections for the period were $292,000 and that free cash has been submitted to the Department of Revenue for certification; last year’s certification printed in the packet was $5,100,000. She described the general fund operating budget for FY26 as $40.8 million, with $13.6 million expended to date (about 33.36%), and reminded members that some…
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