The budget, line by line

Every dollar the town plans to take in this year, and what it does next.

Five funds, one flat tax rate, four charges going up, and eighteen new jobs. Below: the buckets and the General Fund—the town's main operating fund, not the all-funds total—plus what changed and what it costs a household.

Terms used here: Fiscal year 2027 (FY27). “Adopted” means approved by a recorded board action; budget authority is not proof that money was spent. The property-tax rate is stated per $100 of assessed value, and a lower rate does not necessarily mean a lower bill after revaluation. An equivalent residential unit (ERU) is the unit used to calculate a stormwater charge. Consent-agenda items are considered together unless a member moves one to the regular agenda.

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Money in

The five buckets

The town budgets in separate funds, and most of them can only be spent on the thing they were collected for. Tap a bucket for what it holds.

General Fund · money in

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Adopted allocations, not actual collections · budget-book p. 37

Money out

Where the General Fund goes

The adopted book groups departments into five functional areas. These are budget authority, not proof that the money was spent.

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FY2026–27 Board Adopted Budget Book · p. 41

Inside public safety

The departments behind the $53.2M total

Department budgets reconcile exactly to the functional area; they remain adopted authority, not actual spending.

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Year to year

Five adopted General Fund totals, read from the FY23–FY27 budget books.

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What it costs you

The tax rate held. Four charges did not.

The property-tax rate stayed at $0.4836 per $100 of value for the fourth year running. The increases arrived as fees and utility rates instead.

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What the money bought

New this year

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Holes in the record

Three things about this budget we still can't tell you.

Each one is a specific, checkable question — not a suspicion. If you have the document that answers one, we want it.

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