Voters face override request to fund Rutland budget
Patricia Roy
Special to The Landmark
RUTLAND Voters at the annual town meeting will face a request for a $500,000 Proposition 2½ override in order to fund the fiscal 2022 budget without gutting town services.
In a first-time move, the meeting will be held at 6 p.m. May 8 at the Wachusett Regional High School auditorium.
Just days before the meeting, final numbers are being pulled together by the Finance Committee, which is waiting for an updated school district request, after the state has released state aid numbers.
The town was headed into the town meeting with a deficit of $405,000, according to Finance Committee documents on the town website. With requested increases from the school district and various town departments, this amount jumped to just over $1 million. It was eventually wrestled down to $659,511 through “non-devastating cuts by departments, revenue re-calculations and insurance negotiations.”