Bethel Finance Board Shaves Town Budget to $31.6 Million

BETHEL, CT — The finance board voted to reduce the municipal operations budget to $31.6 million on Tuesday night, striking $385,000 from the plan rejected last week by voters, the News-Times is reporting.

The new plan along with the already-approved school and capital budgets would bring the total spend to a little under $78 million, which translates to an overall town and school spending increase of 4.8 percent.

Residents will get their chance to weigh in on the revised proposal at a town meeting at 7 p.m., April 24 in the multipurpose room of the municipal center.

For more, see the News-Times.