The Jaffrey town budget proposal is set at $6.87 million, a 5.7% increase from the current budget.Budget Committee Chair Norman Langevin said the increase is below the national inflation average, which is just under 7%.Major factors in the $372,898.
Published: 4/25/2021 10:45:37 AM
Jaffrey residents were eager for the prospect of high-speed internet during voting at the drive-in Town Meeting on Saturday, unanimously agreeing to a $1.2 million bond for fiber internet infrastructure.
Jaffrey repeated last year’s solution to COVID-19 social distancing with a meeting held in the Hope Fellowship Church parking lot, with residents listening to the meeting over their car radios and voting by holding colored cards out their car windows.
The first article of the day was a bond to run fiber Internet to every household in town. The article originally requested a $2.5 million bond, but was amended to $1.2 million during Town Meeting, to match a proposal submitted by Consolidated Communications. The bond will not be paid back through tax dollars, but by an $11 monthly user fee for those who sign up for the service.