Town Budget Hearings Spotlight Squeeze on Funds
The Board of Finance and First Selectmen at a public hearing reviewed about 4.6 million dollars in budget requests, aiming to hold the line or cut below last year’s allocations of 4.1 million. The Public Works budgets drew most attention as the group debated road projects and other large line items late into the night.
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Board of Finance
First Selectmen
Controller
Public Works Department
Project Renaissance
Mid-Fairfield County Youth Museum
Westport Budget Notes Drainage Backlog and Revenue Sharing
Town drainage projects totaling 123 950 dollars are tagged for possible deletion with Kemish aiming to cut costs by 80 550 using revenue sharing funds to lift the general fund to 4 400. Bertram Cohen warns that increased revenue sharing may be offset by future pulls, while health ambulance and traffic budgets receive careful scrutiny and a nurse parking capital request of 2800 dollars is postponed.
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Kemish
South Compo Road
Spicer Road
Fresinius Road
Crescent Road
Park Lane
Treadwell Avenue
Vani Court
Surrey Lane
North Compo Road
Compo Beach Road
Vincent Rotondo
Bertram Cohen
Parsell Lane
Cohen
Westport
School board approves 11.25 million budget for 1973 74
After three hours of discussion the Board of Education adopted a 11.25 million expenditure for 1973 74, cutting 101 064 from the superintendent’s proposal. The budget shows a 4.25 percent increase over last year but omits funds for professional staff raises still under negotiation. Democrats Revins Lorenzen and Shiller with Republican McCarthy backed the measure as Hieronymus opposed it.
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Mark Roth
Board of Education
Leonard Revins
Stanley Lorenzen
Doris Shiller
Dean McCarthy
GOP
Margo Hieronymus
Kenneth Brummel
Brummel
Board of Finance
Shiller
Lorenzen
Hieronymus
P and Z push for apartment regs amid public hearing
P and Z Commission members defend and clarify proposed apartment regulations ahead of a public hearing set for next Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Town Courtroom. Chairman Belaga rebuts earlier charges from ATM member Klein while Emanuel Margolis cites state statutes supporting moderate income housing.
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Planning and Zoning Commission
P&z
Julie Belaga
ATM
Woody Klein
Commission
Emanuel Margolis
Mr. Zavarella
P&i
Richard Bradley
Committee On Youth and Human Resources
Kemish halts marina expansion plan and backs repairs
First Selectman John Kemish rejects the Boating Facilities Committee's bid to add 772 berths at a $2.5 million cost. He proposes delaying the project or limiting work to repairing Strait Marina at Longshore with an estimated $374,000 price tag. The decision follows a review of capital and operating costs for the coming year.
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First
Kemish
Strait
Longshore
Boating Committee
Kenneth Latimer
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John Kemish
Girl Scouts
U.S.A
I. Tor
Lucy Wolgast
Kelley Thompson
Jane Elmer
Amy Yudkin
Jon Schiff
IED
Paris
Dem
Marina
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