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Subcommittee reviews FY27 enterprise budgets for water, sewer, solid waste, airport and cable
Summary
On Feb. 18, 2026 Advisory and Finance Committee Subcommittee G reviewed the Select Board's proposed FY27 enterprise budgets: water ($3.29M), sewer ($6.70M), solid waste ($1.02M), airport ($3.81M) and cable access ($1.495M), and examined capital projects and debt-service items. No formal votes were recorded in the transcript.
On Feb. 18, 2026 the Advisory and Finance Committee Subcommittee G examined the Select Board's proposed FY27 enterprise budgets for the town's water, sewer, solid waste, airport and cable access operations, reviewing operating totals, capital project line items and debt-service schedules.
The Board-proposed budgets shown in the meeting materials include a Water operating total of $3,287,156; a Sewer operating total of $6,697,915; a Solid Waste operating total of $1,020,849; an Airport operating total of $3,805,367; and a Cable Access operating total of $1,495,000. The materials break out personal services, departmental equipment, "other" expenditures, transfers to an OPEB trust and multiple debt-service lines for each enterprise.
Committee materials flagged several water capital projects and their Select Board figures, notably a $3.75 million Bradford Filters project, a $1.0 million entry for Wannos Pond and a $1.0 million entry for replacing the Lout Pond well; the documents also show a $600,000 Bradford Well line and a variety of smaller capital and short-term interest entries. The water schedule shows some year-to-year reductions in specific project lines in the Board proposal compared with FY26 revised figures.
Sewer enterprise schedules list work including a Samoset Street sewer extension, sewer interceptor replacement projects and waste-water treatment facility planning and construction items; the Board-proposed sewer operating total is presented as $6,697,915, with long-term debt and short-term interest lines shown separately in the materials.
The Solid Waste proposal shows a Board-proposed operating total of $1,020,849, with increases in both personal services and other expenditures versus FY26 noted in the documents. Solid Waste subcommittee totals and OPEB transfer entries appear in the materials as supporting line items.
Airport enterprise pages emphasize that the majority of FY27 airport costs are recorded as "all other expenses" rather than personal services; the Board-proposed operating total appears as $3,805,367 and supporting debt-service and OPEB transfer lines are included in the schedule.
Cable Public Access materials show a Board-proposed FY27 operating total of $1,495,000, a modest reduction from the FY26 revised figure; the schedule highlights purchase-of-services and a $5,000 departmental equipment entry.
The transcript does not record any formal motions, votes or roll-call results. The meeting record closes with an expression of appreciation for staff work on behalf of the town, residents and guests but does not attach that remark to a named speaker in the provided text.
Next steps listed in the materials are not specified in the transcript; the record supplied is materials-and-narration style and does not show any final committee action or vote on the FY27 enterprise budgets.
