{"id":96222,"date":"2024-05-02T13:51:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=96222"},"modified":"2024-05-02T13:51:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:51:23","slug":"rutland-town-meeting-to-set-town-spending-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2024\/05\/02\/rutland-town-meeting-to-set-town-spending-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutland town meeting to set town spending plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\"><em>By Ken Cleveland<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Landmark Correspondent<\/em><\/div>\n<p>RUTLAND \u2014 Voters will tackle town business at the annual town meeting, set to start at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 11, in the Glenwood Elementary School gymnasium, 65 Glenwood Road. Among the business will be the budgets for the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>The funding for municipal departments is set at $11,490,780.<\/p>\n<p>Separate schools budgets would fund the Wachusett Regional School District assessment of $16,555,122 and the Southern Worcester County Regional Vocational School assessment of $790,635.<\/p>\n<p>The other major expenditure being sought is a new ladder firetruck, a borrowing of $1,850,000, contingent on the debt exclusion included on the town election ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Another article that would affect property taxes is the proposed adoption of the Community Preservation Act, which provides for a property tax surcharge. Those funds, to be supplemented by the state, would be used to preserve open space and historic sites, create affordable housing, and fund outdoor recreation spaces. A question on the fall state election ballot would also have to pass to enact the provisions.<\/p>\n<p>Various capital expenditures are planned, including purchase of a facilities van and school security system, as well as a water and sewer department van and modernization of the water treatment plant.<\/p>\n<p>Public works garage repairs and Glenwwod Elementary playground ADA surface replacement would seek $120,000 from the capital stabilization fund.<\/p>\n<p>Voters also have to approve other spending, including the operation of the Water and Sewer Department and the stormwater utility.<\/p>\n<p>Several articles seek funding for equipment for the town clerk, including poll pads, tables, voting booths and other items.<\/p>\n<p>Voters will be able to accept the gift of personal emergency escape ropes for the Fire Department, gifted by the Rutland Volunteer Fire Brigade.<\/p>\n<p>Many articles on the warrant are routine items, such as allowing state roads funds to be used and authorizing regular revolving funds.<\/p>\n<p>Articles would also add funds to accounts such as the Capital Stabilization Fund, OPEB Trust Fund and General Stabilization Fund.<\/p>\n<p>A zoning bylaw change seeks to correct typographical errors.<\/p>\n<p>Two citizen petitions would ask to rezone individual parcels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ken Cleveland Landmark Correspondent RUTLAND \u2014 Voters will tackle town business at the annual town meeting, set to start at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 11, in the Glenwood Elementary School gymnasium, 65 Glenwood Road. Among the business will be the budgets for the coming year. The funding for municipal departments is set at $11,490,780. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}