WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town's fiscal 2023 budget will not account for an increase in the town's health insurance costs after the Finance Committee on Wednesday directed the town.
On Thursday, the School Committee held its annual public hearing on the budget. In year s past, that has been the night the panel votes to approve the spending plan it will send to member towns Lanesborough and Williamstown with the property tax assessments voters will consider at their respective annual town meetings. I m going to keep on saying draft, draft, draft all night long because this is a work in progress, Business Administrator Joe Bergeron said in presenting the budget to the board. As recently as March 3, the district told the Williamstown Finance Committee that it would be ready with final budget numbers for the Fin Comm to review at its March 17 meeting.
Those were two of the takeaways from a presentation to the town s Finance Committee on Wednesday. Mount Greylock Superintendent Jason McCandless and Business Manager Joe Bergeron met virtually with the town panel not to discuss specifics of the FY22 budget the district is formulating but to discuss some of the inputs that help build that budget. Bergeron did not provide any specifics about the planned budget for the three-school district or its impact to property taxpayers in Lanesborough and Williamstown. He said those numbers would not be finalized until next week when the School Committee holds its annual public hearing on the budget.