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Templeton select board finalizes no-override budget with $61,001 surplus; applies targeted cuts, outlines override priorities
Summary
The Town of Templeton select board on April 30 reconciled budget spreadsheets, removed stabilization money from the no-override scenario and applied cuts to emergency management, fire and highway accounts, leaving a $61,001.28 surplus on the current draft; the board listed personnel and park funding as priorities if a $2 million override passes.
The Town of Templeton select board moved Thursday to reconcile a contested draft budget and finalized figures that leave a small surplus in the no-override scenario.
“We're here to hopefully do a final budget discussions and come up with our dollar figures for our motions at a town meeting,” the chair said at the start of the special meeting as the board reviewed sources-and-uses spreadsheets and warrant-line items that will go to voters.
Finance staff told the board he had added $50,000 of assumed new growth above the assessor's number to balance the draft, then acknowledged the line might have been double-counted with a $50,000 sewer vehicle listed in the department’s supplies. “50,000 is additional new growth… I added an additional 50 to that,” Finance director said, and later agreed to recheck the spreadsheet and remove duplicate…
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