Weathersfield Weekly Blog July 18 edition
View of downtown Woodstock from the top of Mount Tom via the Faulkner Trail. News You Can Use ICYMI (In case You Missed It Select Board Meets to Set Town Tax Rate The select board met on Thursday, July 7 to set the FY23 tax rate. The minutes have been posted. Reading through the minutes is confusing at best. The select board and town manager are still unsure of how much money is in the Reserve Fund accounts and the General and Highway Funds. The Highway and General Fund balances are unclear as FY22 closed a week ago and an audit has not been conducted yet. Town manager Brandon Gulnick projected the balances to be around $81,000 in the Highway Fund and in the General Fund around $205,000. (If these funds don't get used for invoices still coming in, shouldn't these monies be used to reduce FY23 taxes?) Dave Fuller made a motion (and then amended it) to set the tax rate at 0.6269 for Total Municipal Taxes to be Raised-$2,080,674. Taxes will be due on Aug...