Board readies budget for vote on May 28

FALLS VILLAGE — The Board of Finance, during its regular meeting Monday, May 11, voted to recommend to town meeting the two component parts of the town’s 2009-10 spending plan.

The town meeting will be Thursday, May 28, 7 p.m. at the Lee H. Kellogg School. The Board of Finance traditionally holds a special meeting immediately afterward, to set the mill rate.

The mill rate determines property taxes in Connecticut towns. A mill represents $1 in tax for every $1,000 of assessed property value. A 15-mill tax rate would translate into a tax bill of $1,500 for the owner of a home assessed at $100,000.

The municipal budget is $1,516,248; the school budget is $2,699,608. The budgets are voted on separately.

First Selectman Pat Mechare made a couple of requests of the Board of Finance prior to the vote. She asked for authorization to allocate up to $20,000 in unexpended funds from the 2008-09 budget to the lines for capital funds for fire trucks and town trucks ($10,000 to each). This action effectively restores the cuts made in those lines in the selectmen’s budget as presented to the public hearing April 28.

And she asked that the $20,581 remaining in the current Town Farm property line (i.e. the pool) be transferred to the Recreation Commission for two projects that will not be completed until the 2009-10 fiscal year.

Tom Grayson was elected to the board as a full member prior to the meeting.

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