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Budget adjustments not enough

The Board of Finance adjusted a 4.7% increase in the Town's operating budget  to about 3.7% give or take.  Inflation is currently at 2%.  Certain salary increases were left intact.  A cut of 596k would have been needed to take the spending increase to match inflation at 2%, and the 230k adjustment did not even "meet halfway". The results of the next vote will be interesting.  If it goes to defeat a second time, the cuts will need to be deeper, overall, than if they at least chopped that 596l in half

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