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The Finance Committee voted 9-0 to recommend $4,675,053 in Community Preservation appropriations for 13 projects, plus $131,231 for budgeted reserves. It also recommended transferring $948,791 from free cash to insurance and salary reserve funds; the town’s 2026 free cash balance was reported as $17,040,810.
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The committee’s recommendations support projects involving housing, conservation, recreation, historic preservation, library improvements, and school amenities, but they still require action through the Annual Town Meeting process. The committee also backed several financial measures, including reserve funding, OPEB trust funding, PFAS settlement fund use, and debt rescission. Municipal Facilities Planning and the FY27 capital improvement and debt plan were deferred to March 12, while no FY26 budget line-item adjustments or unpaid-bills article was brought forward.
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