Lyndon Sees Large Budget Increase

Details: Created on Friday, 22 February 2019 01:28; Written by Chelsi Byrnes

LYNDON- As town meeting day is approaching the town of Lyndon is gearing up for a larger increase in their budget for the 2019 vote. The Lyndon select board say that this has been the highest increase in many years.

After a long process of figuring out how to decrease the budget the select board came in with a total of an eight cent increase in the total budget. With that includes many repairs that are much needed to be done. The select board felt that it was a lot for citizens to have to pay, but they said it was well needed. The budget will approximately be a 177,000 dollar increase not including the special appropriations. One of the appropriations that won't be on the vote this year is the Lyndon softball and baseball teams as they didn't get their appropriations in on time.

Chair of the select board Kermit Fisher said, "Well I don't like it but, for a lot of reasons a lot of it had to do with insurance we have to replace a roof on one of our buildings it was a lot of other things we need to catch up some of the employees wages are at a competitive level so it was a number of things, but it is fairly substantial increase for the first time in quite a few years."

Select board member Dan Daley who is also a resident of Lyndon wasn't a fan of the increase as well.

"We were less than one cent and I think the town general fund was around a penny or two, yeah so this a year that we got hit pretty hard for sure...so yeah it's been a long time since we have seen this much of an increase," said Daley.

The select board hopes to see an increase of voters this year.