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Select Board adopts free-cash plan and budget instructions, with modification to reserve transfer
Summary
After a lengthy budget discussion, the Select Board approved a free-cash plan that applies $500,000 to operating (policy cap), supports a capital plan, halves a proposed OPEB contribution and leaves a portion of free cash available; the board modified the recommendation and removed a $200,000 general-stabilization transfer before approval.
Select Board members on Nov. 17 voted to adopt the administration’s proposed free-cash plan and budget instructions for FY27 capital and operating preparation, with one modification: the board removed a proposed $200,000 contribution to the general-purpose stabilization fund for the current cycle.
Finance staff said the town’s certified free cash on July 1 was $5,254,050 and recommended applying…
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