Easton Town Administrator Looks For Sustainable Progress in Preliminary Budget
The Easton Town Administrator released his preliminary budget memo this week. He hopes his budget will fund four new public safety employees for half the year.
Easton Town Administrator David Colton presented a preliminary budget memo to Selectmen this week that, above all else, urged caution. While the town administrator said "no retrenchment" will be made in staffing levels and the overall budget projection, he said the town is not yet ready to fully restore Easton to pre-recession levels. "I’ve laid off firefighters before," he said. "I don’t want to do it again. The danger is we add back too fast in a way we can’t sustain it." Colton's $69.9 million preliminary budget presented a $979,286 deficit, which will be chipped away in coming weeks and months before a final budget is presented at May's Annual Town Meeting. "It’s a process we go through every year and always get to zero," Board of …
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