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Finance committee sets budget question deadline, debates stormwater fee and hears HVAC grant risk and DPW feasibility questions
Summary
The finance committee set a Thursday midnight deadline for budget questions, discussed a possible townwide stormwater fee (currently charged only to commercial properties), requested consultant invoices for DPW feasibility work, and heard that a roughly $1,000,000 Green Communities HVAC grant could be lost if the project is turned down at town meeting.
The committee moved quickly through municipal budget matters after the school discussion, setting a firm deadline and probing several infrastructure items.
Chair set the budget question deadline as “midnight on Thursday,” asking members to submit items so staff could consolidate and forward them to the town manager on Friday morning to allow time for responses. Several members said the four‑day turnaround was too short for detailed review and urged the chair to request earlier delivery of materials from town management in the future.
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