This is a maintenance budget that provides the current level of services that we offer now. This budget is not all doom and gloom because there are some things within it that we should be excited about, but we felt that if further cuts were made, they would have a direct effect on our classrooms and town services like police and fire.
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It's not an incentive. It's like a gun being put up to your head.
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We want to end the Blue Back Square debate and I am sure that we will all be able to breathe a sigh of relief when we can move on. I feel more confident than ever in the success that the project will have and in the vote that I have made to support it.
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The increase in our grand list is the highest that we have seen in decades. The growth we have seen on the real estate side shows that a lot of people are reinvesting in their properties and that is a great example of the kind of faith people have in our community.
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