The Select Board’s warrant for next month’s annual town meeting shows an increase of just over 1.3 percent for government operations, though school spending is up 3.7 percent.
GREAT BARRINGTON â Before diving Tuesday night into details of Great Barringtonâs next budget â the start of many hours of debate in coming days â officials got a mountaintop view from their town manager.
Here are some of the peaks sketched for members of the Select Board and Finance Committee, meeting jointly on Zoom.
First, of the money coming in:
⢠Great Barrington expects its revenue for the year that starts July 1 to rise 6.6 percent, to $34,914,680. Of that, $25,004,965 will come from local property taxes, an increase of $368,585, or 1.5 percent, over the current year.
According to Town Manager Mark A. Pruhenski, Great Barrington also will see $2,025,000 in local receipts from things like motor vehicle excise taxes, license, permit and inspection fees and meals taxes. That source of money flowing in includes taxes from retail marijuana sales, which came to $1,426,341 during the 2020 fiscal year.