Finance Committee approves $4.9M in FY27 operating budgets. Chair Sarah Mellish led the committee to unanimous approval of eight operating budgets including the DPW Highway Budget ($1,548,377), Enterprise Water ($1,395,359), Enterprise Sewer ($1,229,588), Land Management ($277,680), Facilities
Finance Committee approves $2.71 million in department budgets. The Committee unanimously approved the Fire Department's $2.185 million FY27 budget, which includes SAFER Grant-funded staffing increases to ensure minimum staffing of four personnel 83 percent of the time, up from 66 percent under
Manchester-by-the-Sea Finance Committee approved fire and parks budgets totaling roughly $2.7 million and deferred a coastal survey proposal as the school assessment dropped $700,000 below prior projections.
Manchester-by-the-Sea Finance Committee unanimously approves FY27 operational budgets for harbor and finance departments. The committee approved $317,838 for harbor operations on January 29 at Town Administrator Tony Barletta's recommendation, a 1.54 percent increase that addresses Harbormaster
Finance Committee approves three FY27 municipal budgets totaling over one million dollars. The Council on Aging received $234,068, the Board of Health $214,013, and the Library $584,162, all approved unanimously. Committee members supported the Library's requested $8,656 increase for extended hours
Manchester-by-the-Sea's Finance Committee unanimously approved three operating budgets at its January 22 meeting and debated a potential overhaul of how the town finances affordable housing and the downtown rotunda project.