Simsbury Board of Selectmen approves proposed FY2026'7 budget and sets May 16 referendum

The Simsbury Board of Selectmen voted on April 30 to forward the Board of Finance'recommended spending plan and capital-improvement program to an automatic referendum on Saturday, May 16, 2026, and approved a package of operating and capital appropriations the board will ask voters to ratify.

Town Manager (speaker 2) asked Finance Director Amy Merriweather and staff to summarize a few late changes from the Board of Finance. Amy Merriweather, the town's finance director, said the Board of Finance reduced the planned use of health-insurance fund reserves from $1,000,000 to $700,000 and that change increased the projected tax impact. "We will be using $700,000 in health insurance fund reserves," Merriweather said. "The tax increase when you sent it over to the Board of Finance was 2.15. The tax increase is now 2.3. It's an increase of 0.76 mills. On a $450,000 home, that's a tax impact of $239 a year." (Amy Merriweather, Finance Director).

Selectwoman Diana moved that the board adopt the board-of-selectmen final resolutions and referendum questions under the town charter; Diana read the full text of the resolutions and the four referendum questions into the record, including appropriations the Board of Finance…