FY24 Budget and Capital Planning
The FY24 Budget and Capital Planning cycle ended with Annual Town Meeting on 6/20/2023.
- Budget Memo - guidance to department heads
- WRSD FY24 Draft Budget Presentation
- Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School FY24 Preliminary Budget
- Budget Presentation 3/6/2023 - covering Highway, Police/EMS, Police
- Budget Presentation 3/27/2023 - first look at entire budget, still preliminary
- Budget Presentation 5/2/2023 - deep dive into Police budget
- Tax Rate Estimate
- Projected Tax Levy Summary
- Proposed Budget / Tax Levy Calculation
- Debt Schedule
- Advisory Committee Benchmarking Against Similar Towns
- Youtube videos to help understand Prop 2 1/2, Levy Limit, and Levy Ceiling (from the Division of Local Services at Mass.gov)
Though it was the Selectboard's intention to publish the FY24 Budget Report ahead of the Annual Town Meeting, we weren't able to do so this year. We are providing it here anyhow though because it is still a valuable document. Note that it was written before the meeting though published after.