Lisa Redmond
Special to the Millbury-Sutton Chronicle
MILLBURY At the May 4 annual town meeting, Millbury voters will be asked to spend millions of dollars on fiscal 2022 town and school budgets, use marijuana money for infrastructure and storm water improvements, and pay some prior year’s bills.
Town meeting is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. at the Millbury Jr./Sr. High School, 12 Martin St.
Of the 23 articles on the meeting warrant, Article 2 tackles Town Manager Sean Hendricks’ proposed town/school budget of $48.8 million, an increase of about $1.5 million, or roughly a 3 percent increase over the fiscal 2021 $47.3 million town/school budget, based on budget documents provided by Hendricks.
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Lisa Redmond
Special to the Millbury-Sutton Chronicle
MILLBURY The Millbury School Committee had some strong reactions to the possibility that it may need to trim about $180,000 from its proposed fiscal 2022 school budget due to the town manager’s “conservative’’ budgeting for next fiscal year.
School Business Administrator Richard Bedard Jr. told the School Committee on April 14 that Town Manager Sean Hendricks, who is new to the job, presented the Finance Committee with his overall fiscal 2022 town/school budget of $47,031,414, which is a total increase of 2.5 percent, or $1.18 million, over the fiscal 2021 budget.
The fiscal 2022 budget (July 1, 2021-June 30, 2022) will likely undergo several more revisions before it is presented next month for town meeting approval.
Millions in COVID relief can t be used for Millbury school budget
Lisa Redmond
Special to the Millbury-Sutton Chronicle
MILLBURY – Town Manager Sean Hendricks told the Finance Committee he is “sitting on’’ $600,000 the town received in COVID relief money with another $4 million expected through the American Rescue Plan Act, but he won’t touch either to bridge the $330,000 funding gap in the proposed fiscal 2022 school budget.
“I never thought I’d be a town manager saying, ‘Stop giving me money,’ to federal or state money … But I can’t spend it,’’ Hendricks told the Finance Committee during an April 19 meeting to present the proposed fiscal 2022 municipal budget.