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Article: Budget showing 2.5% increase heads to town meeting
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- March 30, 2005
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The Patriot Ledger
Marshfield town meeting will vote on a $63.4 million operating
budget for the coming fiscal year.
The proposed budget is $1.6 million, or roughly 2.5 percent,
larger than the budget for fiscal 2005, which ends June 30.
Officials unveiled the budget plan last night along with the rest
of the articles voters will consider at town meeting April 25. The
advisory board and the selectmen held a joint hearing on all of the
items voters will consider.
The $1.6 million figure represents a relative slowdown in budget
growth. Over the last five years, the town's budget has grown