Finance Committee

AUBURN — June 3, 2026 — Auburn Finance Committee approves more than $115,000 in year-end reserve-fund transfers. The committee, chaired by Kevin W. Kennedy, worked through more than a dozen requests at its June 3 meeting, including a $50,000 police overtime transfer that Police Chief Kennedy said reflects

CLINTON — June 1, 2026 — Clinton Finance Committee approves $617,000 in retroactive wages for five town departments. The committee voted unanimously June 1 to authorize retro pay for police, dispatch, facilities, fire, and ambulance employees under Articles 19 through 23 of the Town Meeting warrant, drawing $617,000 from free

WESTBOROUGH — May 28, 2026 — Westborough Finance Committee votes 6-0 to approve $10,000 equipment transfer for weights and measures function. The Advisory Finance Committee unanimously approved moving $10,000 from Community Development salary and wages to Community Development expenses to purchase equipment and fund training after annual town meeting

LUNENBURG — May 28, 2026 — Lunenburg Finance Committee wrestles with override fallout and state Senate aid timing. Meeting Thursday, the five-member panel debated whether $465,000 in additional local aid secured by state Senator Cronin through the Senate's FY27 budget could be directed toward school staffing reductions before

West Brookfield Finance Committee rescinded and re-voted more than a dozen department salary lines, landing a FY2026 operating budget roughly $30,000 under the levy limit without drawing on free cash.

HUBBARDSTON — May 26, 2026 — Hubbardston Finance Committee identifies $31,971 budget shortfall and flags DPW salary disparity ahead of Town Meeting. Meeting less than six days before Town Meeting, the committee reviewed a rebuilt fiscal year 2027 budget document that corrected formula errors in the town administrator's draft,

GARDNER — May 26, 2026 — Gardner Finance Committee advances mayor's chief of staff proposal on a 2-1 vote. The three-member Finance Committee of the Gardner City Council voted 2-1 Tuesday to recommend that the full council accept a new chief of staff position for Mayor Michael

CLINTON — May 21, 2026 — Clinton's Finance Committee approved its final fiscal year budget May 21 after voting 3-2 to reduce the budgeted salary for the assistant town administrator from $125,000 to $111,000, the bottom of the position's newly reclassified range. The committee also

West Brookfield's Finance Committee rescinded and re-approved more than two dozen department budgets at its May 20 session, still needing to find roughly $50,000 in cuts before the Annual Town Meeting.

BERLIN — May 20, 2026 — Berlin Finance Committee unanimously approves seven end-of-year line-item transfers exceeding $67,000. The committee, meeting May 20 with three members — chair Scott and members Berry and Heidi — voted 3-0 on each transfer, the largest of which moved $53,030.34 from two