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Town Hall will reopen to the public Tuesday for the first time since mid-March 2020, with all staff and visitors required to wear masks inside the building.
Preston About two dozen residents listened to presentations on the proposed $12.4 million 2021-22 school budget and $4 million town government budget during the first in-person meeting in more than a year, but residents were mostly silent when asked for questions or comments.
The finance board earlier this month had approved a $120,000 cut to the school budget, leaving it at a 1.97% increase, and cut $3,900 from the town government budget, which has a 4.21% increase. The board also voted to use $450,000 from the town’s healthy undesignated fund balance to bring the proposed tax rate to 26.67 mills, down by 0.27 mill, or 1%, from this year’s tax rate of 26.94 mills.