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BENNINGTON âWith the fiscal 2022 budget nearly finalized, the Select Board has reduced the spending plan submitted by Town Manager Stuart Hurd to bring a projected 3.8 percent tax rate increase down to around 2 percent.
Hurd had recommended most of the cuts from the original $14,434,470 town budget after a request from the board to trim the rate hike to approximately 2 percent, representing about $200,000.
The $14.4 million combined town budget first proposed had represented a 2.71 increase over the current year, Hurd said, and it accommodated increases for contracted pay raises and for insurance cost hikes.