Board flags possible budget coding issues, one-time items that may skew totals
Select board members said equipment purchases and ARPA reimbursements may be inflating operating totals used to set the tax rate and asked for a detailed budget-status report separating one-time capital and grant-reimbursed costs.
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Board member Stacy Rainey urged a closer look at the town's budget-status report after reviewing expenditures that appear higher than anticipated. "So we were approaching 20% over budget," Rainey said while pointing to specific lines on the page that showed a substantial negative delta; she asked whether large items (highway-equipment purchases, Quaker Village slide costs) were one-time expenditures that should be treated separately from operating expenses.
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