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Town Moderator Mark DiSalvo appeared before the Select Board March 9, 2020 to discuss potential changes to the 2020 town meeting. (Christopher Huffaker/Patch)
NORTH ANDOVER, MA North Andover officials are discussing again holding annual town meeting outside in June, like 2020 s meeting.
Town Moderator Mark DiSalvo spoke to the Select Board Monday about the meeting, almost a year after he came to them in the early days of the pandemic to discuss then-radical potential changes to that year s town meeting.
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He suggested replicating last year s meeting, outside in June.
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The Select Board were in favor of DiSalvo s idea and Town Manager Melissa Murphy-Rodrigues agreed that a June meeting would work.
UpdatedFri, Feb 19, 2021 at 2:18 pm ET
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The town manager s recommended Fiscal Year 2022 budget includes several million in reserve funds. (Shutterstock)
NORTH ANDOVER, MA The North Andover town budget would increase just under 1 percent, under the recommended Fiscal Year 2022 budget recently presented to the Select Board by Town Manager Melissa Murphy-Rodrigues.
Total general fund spending would grow to $112.8 million, up from $111.7 million in the Fiscal Year 2021 budget.
Speaking to the Board at their Feb. 8 meeting, Murphy-Rodrigues projected that excluding reserves, revenues would increase about 2.35 percent.
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The property tax levy would increase by 3.61 percent while local receipts would fall 3.55 percent, due to continuing pandemic effects. Town officials are projecting level funding for state aid.
Dec 15, 2020
NORTH ANDOVER â The North Andover Board of Selectmen voted unanimously to transfer up to $300,000 from the townâs stabilization fund to the Stevenâs Estate enterprise fund budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
If the transfer wasnât made, Town Manager Melissa Murphy-Rodrigues said that the townâs taxpayers would have to shoulder the burden, paying an additional $30 on their property taxes this year.
âIf we donât make the vote it would automatically be raised on the tax levy and paid by taxpayers,â Murphy-Rodrigues said during a Dec. 7 Board of Selectmen meeting exclusively dedicated to the money transfer to the Stevenâs Estate, a historic home run as an event and wedding venue run by the town.