Larger budget would boost employee pay, expand town workforce

by William Kelly
Communications Coordinator

Town Manager Kirk Blouin is proposing a $104.8 million budget for 2023-24 that includes a lower property tax rate, additional workers and a 9 percent employee pay increase to cover inflation.

The budget sets aside $2 million for the pay hike and for the creation of eight employee positions, which would bring the town’s workforce to the equivalent of 371 full-time workers.

The $104.8 million spending plan, for the year that begins Oct. 1, is nearly 8 percent larger than this year’s $97.2 million budget. It requires approval from the Town Council, which will review it at a special meeting on Thursday.

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