2/12/09 - Board Of Selectmen Budget Review & Recommendations
Selectmen approve 0% increase to the BoS 2009-2010 budget, including:
Selectmen recommend a 0.7% increase to the BoE 2009-2010 budget, including:
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Selectmen approve 0% increase to the BoS 2009-2010 budget, including:
- Department heads agree to pay freezes across departments (non-BoE)
- First Selectmen proposes a 2.5% decrease to his own compensation
- Selectmen reduce their own expense reimbursements for official business
- Reductions through the ability to postpone capital expenditures for fire engine replacement and a portion of
wetlands mitigation.
Selectmen recommend a 0.7% increase to the BoE 2009-2010 budget, including:
- Decreasing the BoE's proposed $1.2 million budget increase of 2.6% over the prior year, to a $285,000 budget
increase, or 0.7% over the prior year.
- Reducing health care insurance costs by $600,000, by tapping into the health care reserve account.
- Delaying technology investments of $35,000 for a Television Studio in the WHS, which is nonessential in this
challenging economy, and in light of the proportionately small number of students to benefit from a program yet
to be formulated.
- Realizing a $50,000 savings in fuel pricing lock-ins.
- Postponing non-essential capital expenditures of $25,000 to WMS.
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