David C. wrote: > The town only needs around ~$37M in property taxes to balance next year’s > budget. > No - in FY24, our *actual expenditures were $41.3m. *My *guess* is that FY26 actual will come in around $43-$45m.
NOTE: Our actuals are listed in the first column of "Table 1" in each year's Financial Warrant: [image: image.png] Source: https://www.lincolntown.org/DocumentCenter/View/98197/20250329-Fincom-Report-FY26--FINAL- If you want a ~$37m budget, then we've got to find ~$7m of operational spending to cut, which means deep cuts in services. What are town meeting voters willing to give up? One please-let's-use-the-correct-data resident's view, -andy
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