Arlington Town Meeting

20 June 2003


As you may have heard, $270,000 of the "found" $1,000,000 has evaporated. The House-Senate Conference Committee adopted the House's lower local aid numbers in the state compromise budget unveiled yesterday. Referring to Mr. Lyon's expressed certainty during the debate on Article 54 that the higher Senate numbers would "irrefutably" prevail, one of my friends jokingly suggested that an article be inserted into the warrant of the next TM, to read:
To see if the Town will graciously accept Selectman Lyon's generous offer of his house.
I also like
To appropriate no more than $104 to purchase a MegaMillions QuickPick(tm) whenever the jackpot is over $100,000,000.

Joking aside, this probably will require a Special TM at some point, as judging from what Mr. Tosti said during the budget debate, the allowable fudge factors would be very unlikely to be able to cover a $270,000 gap and so the budgets will probably have to be formally amended.


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