Select Board Directs 15% Budget Reductions as $784K Deficit Looms
Dunstable Select Board directed departments to submit 15 percent budget reductions amid a $784,000 FY27 deficit projection.
Select Board · Meeting of January 7, 2026
Dunstable Select Board directed departments to submit 15 percent budget reductions amid a $784,000 FY27 deficit projection. Chair Leah D. Basbanes convened a joint meeting with the Advisory Board and Groton-Dunstable Regional School District representatives, who presented preliminary budgets reflecting departmental requests up 10.25 percent and school district requests up 6.46 percent.
The boards reaffirmed their policy of using free cash primarily for one-time expenditures rather than recurring operations and concluded an override was not viable.
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Source: the Select Board meeting of January 7, 2026, compiled from the official minutes.
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