Wicked Local After the pandemic strained Brookline’s already-tight finances, the town’s budget is on the mend heading into fiscal 2022, according to Town Administrator Mel Kleckner. Presenting the town’s FY22 financial plan to the Select Board last week, Kleckner called the plan a “recovery budget,” anticipating a gradual recuperation from pandemic-era revenue loss and a resumption of normal municipal operations. “We see FY22 as a transition to go back and restore and get back to somewhat of a normal operation,” he told the Select Board. The town’s $365.5 million budget marks a 4.8% increase over 2021 and assumes no additional federal stimulus funding, although President Joe Biden has proposed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package that would include funding for state and local governments.