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Bow selectmen adjust budget lines, aim to keep tax impact near 3.9% and boost paving funding
Summary
Selectmen approved a package of line-item budget changes — trimming overtime, adjusting health-insurance assumptions, reducing fuel/salt estimates and reallocating small savings — and directed residual savings to paving; they also voted to transfer $150,000 from the boat-ramp capital reserve to the community-center fund.
At the meeting on Dec. 16, town finance staff and the selectmen reviewed a draft budget initially showing a 4.3% tax-impact. Town staff presented recommended adjustments and selectmen proposed additional line-item changes to lower the net tax effect.
Selectmen moved to reduce police overtime from $100,000 to $75,000, change health-insurance…
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