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MANCHESTER â Manchester voters approved everything including the budget, rail trail, a fire truck and the library funding.
Without a floor vote and everything being handled with Australian ballot, the Town Meeting Day produced one of the largest vote tallies in recent memory with close to 1,200 votes cast.
And voters were in a generous mood, approving all funding requests including the $5,979,211 budget, by a vote of 937 to 205.
The funding plan calls for a 3.75 percent increase despite cutting spending by $1.01 million dollars as revenues also decreased by $1.13 million.
The Manchester Select Board cut nearly every budget in town except for the fire departmentâs budget.
MANCHESTER — Kilburn’s Convenience Store, a mainstay on Depot Street for more than 30 years, is under new ownership following the sale of the business and associated commercial property.
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MANCHESTERÂ â The town of Manchesterâs budget process kicked off Wednesday night, as Selectboard members began the work of evaluating the spending plan for fiscal 2022.
Town Manager John O Keefe emphasized the FY22 budget is still a work in progress. That said, it currently anticipates a tax increase of 4.86 percent for the 15 percent municipal share of property tax bills. That s higher than we d like it to be, O Keefe said.Â
In the past, the Selectboard has tackled the entire spending plan in one day-long session at the Park House at Dana L. Thompson Memorial Park. This year, the five-person board, meeting virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is splitting the budget into two shorter sessions.. The second will start at 9 a.m. Friday and can be watched on Zoom from a link on the town calendar.Â