Date: Fri 28-Mar-1997

Publication: Bee

Author: STEVEB

Quick Words:

town-meeting-budget-capital

Full Text:

Town Meeting Asked To Spend $1 Million From Capital Fund

B Y S TEVE B IGHAM

A town meeting will be held Wednesday, April 2 to vote on a resolution to

transfer $1 million from the town's capital and non-recurring expenditures

fund to fund certain items in the budget. The meeting will be held in the

middle school library.

Due to a $3.3 million revenue shortfall this year, the Legislative Council

recently voted to use money from the capital non-recurring account in an

effort to hold the tax rate increase to just 1.2 mills.

The following is a list of items the town is seeking to fund through the

account:

New computer system for the finance department, $95,000.

Cyrenius Booth Library equipment, $5,000.

Police patrol cars, $82,616.

Police mobile radios, overhead light bars, $3,000.

Fire department capital items, $115,000.

Canine control truck cap, $775.

Land Use map-making machine and two chairs, $2,825.

Highway truck replacements, $166,000. (Highway road work, $501,284; Hanover

Road drainage and paving, $400,000; Dinglebrook Road paving, $101,284.

Parks & Recreation park renovations, $10,500.

Car pool, $18,000.