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Board of Finance sends revised $68.19 million budget and 27.72 mill rate to May 1 referendum after $25,000 school cut
Summary
After citizen pleas and weeks of deliberation, the Board of Finance voted to recommend revised town expenditures of $26,853,952 and a Board of Education budget of $41,340,139 (including a $25,000 additional reduction) and to send a $68,194,091 combined budget and 27.72 mill rate to referendum on May 1.
The Board of Finance voted Wednesday to recommend a revised combined town and Board of Education budget of $68,194,091 and a proposed mill rate of 27.72, sending the package to a May 1 referendum.
Chair (speaker 2) opened the meeting, heard a queue of public comments and then invited the First Selectwoman (speaker 12) and finance staff to present line-by-line reductions on the town side. The First Selectwoman outlined $271,024 in town cuts—reductions to professional services, IT hardware, recreation events, street lighting, certain capital items and contingency accounts—and reported revised town expenditures of $26,853,952, a roughly 1.98% increase over the prior year.
Finance staff (speaker…
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