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Gouldsboro budget increases by 8.45 percent - The Ellsworth American


Gouldsboro budget increases by 8.45 percent
GOULDSBORO It took an untold number of peppermints, microphone malfunctions, mask-hampered discourse and 16 hours of number crunching on often bitter-cold nights for the town’s Budget Committee to finalize and present a 2021-22 municipal budget of $1.992 million to selectmen last Wednesday night.
The spending plan is up 8.54 percent over the $1.835 million budgeted for this fiscal year. The proposal, which does not include school or county costs, was delivered a month early and will be voted on at the annual Town Meeting June 9.
Held in the Prospect Harbor Women’s Club building, spaced apart up front with the furnace fired up, the 11 committee members began meeting for two hours every week four months ago. Their deliberations were held in person save for a few members who faithfully tuned in from home via Zoom. One member attended one meeting virtually from Vermont while holed up in a camper during a blizzard. The town ....

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