The third Fiscal Year 2025 budget referendum will be held on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, from 8am to 8pm EST at the Pearson School. The Pearson School is located at 2 Wetmore Avenue, Winsted, CT 06098.
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The second fiscal year 2025 (FY 2025) budget that was rejected by voters at the July 2 referendum proposed total expenditures of $40,955,743 and a corresponding mill rate of 27.38. The third FY 2025 to be voted on July 30 proposes an expenditure total of $40,806,370 and a corresponding mill rate of 27.24. This translates to a .85, or 3.21%, mill rate increase from the FY 2024 mill rate of 26.39.
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The second fiscal year 2025 (FY 2025) budget that was rejected by voters at the July 2 referendum proposed total expenditures of $40,955,743 and a corresponding mill rate of 27.38. The third FY 2025 to be voted on July 30 proposes an expenditure total of $40,806,370 and a corresponding mill rate of 27.24. This translates to a .85, or 3.21%, mill rate increase from the FY 2024 mill rate of 26.39.
A reduction of $149,373 was approved by the Winchester Board of Selectmen following a request from Town Manager Paul Harrington to department heads to identify items that they “can survive without” for one year. Specially, the budget amendments include:
- Finance: $3,400 decrease
- Assessor: $2,400 increase
- Tax Collector: $1,800 decrease
- Town Clerk: $1,000 decrease
- Planning and Zoning Commission: $300 decrease
- Zoning Board of Appeals: $700 decrease
- Inland Wetlands Commission: $1,000 decrease
- Land Use: $2,650 decrease
- Police: $82,800 decrease
- Fire: $8,400 decrease
- Highways: $24,784 decrease
- Social Services: $34,255 decrease
- Employee Benefits: $9,316 increase
- Net Total: $149,373 decrease
There is no additional decrease to the Board of Education included this third budget proposal. Additionally, the Social Service Director was reduced from full-time to part-time.