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Advisory board approves $4,500 committee budget after brief review
Summary
At its May 19 meeting the Blessing Advisory Board reviewed last year’s under-spending and approved a near-status-quo $4,500 budget request by voice vote; members also flagged a mislabelled budget printout and an outstanding reimbursement issue.
The Blessing Advisory Board reviewed its proposed fiscal-year budget during a special meeting on May 19 and adopted a $4,500 allocation after a motion, a second and a voice vote.
Board members opened discussion by noting that actual spending in recent years had been materially lower than amounts budgeted. Members pointed to a $893 reimbursement recorded by the town and said the committee still had some unreimbursed expenses from recent travel and conference attendance. The board debated travel line items and workshop-related costs before deciding to keep the requested budget at roughly the same level as the prior year.
Participants identified an error in the budget printout’s column headers (fiscal-year labels appeared misaligned with the amounts shown), which caused confusion about which line reflected actual expenditures versus budgeted figures. The transcript records that those header errors were acknowledged and that the presenter would correct them before the packet went to accounts.
A motion to adopt the budget “as presented” (with the noted header error) was made and seconded; the board proceeded to a voice vote and members answered in the affirmative. The transcript does not record a roll-call tally or named mover/second. The board instructed staff to submit the corrected budget packet to accounting for processing.
Next steps: the corrected budget file and any outstanding reimbursement paperwork will be submitted to the town accounts office prior to the council-level budget review scheduled by the municipality.
