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Town to consider $26,124 for social-service agencies; printed subtotal contains error
Summary
Article 4 would fund local social-service agencies for $26,124. A resident flagged a $500 subtotal error on the printed sheet; town staff said individual line items and the budget carry-through were correct and the error did not affect the general fund totals.
Article 4 proposed appropriations of $26,124 to local social-service agencies including Clara Martin Center, Visiting Nurses, Tri-Valley Transit and others. The moderator read each line item and the totals; attendees questioned the subtotal math after the family-place item increased by $1,300. "There’s supposed to be a math problem here somewhere because there is a family place, but on $1,300, but the grand total will go up to it," a resident observed.
Town staff reviewed the printed sheets and said each agency’s requested amount and the budgeted number are correct; the displayed subtotal on the meeting handout was off by $500 but staff explained that the mistake does not carry through to the authorized budget. The board accepted that clarification and proceeded to the next article.
