Finance Committee Weighs FY28 Budget Guidelines
Concord Finance Committee members questioned whether a planned $1.8 million reserve release for fiscal 2028 would hold up.
Finance Committee · Meeting of October 15, 2026
Concord Finance Committee members questioned whether a planned $1.8 million reserve release for fiscal 2028 would hold up. One member said they were "not confident that we will end up making that $1.8 million reserve release or that it will still be there in two years," while another flagged an unaccounted ambulance revenue offset and said the town's new-growth estimate, tied partly to Chapter 40B development, was likely understated by "several hundred thousand dollars." Members also discussed setting department-level spending goals, with one saying they agreed with fellow member Eric Dahlberg's call for goals "set department-wise and then it gets filtered down," and floated benchmarking school spending against peer towns. No vote on the preliminary fiscal 2028 guidelines is documented in the available recording.
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Source: the Finance Committee meeting of October 15, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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