Select Board reviews FY27 administrative, executive, highway, and police budgets
Chesterfield Select Board reviews FY27 budgets; school costs expected to spike sharply. Chair Roger Fuller, alongside Select Board members Trish Colson-Montgomery and Don Willard, examined the administrative and executive budgets line by line on February 13, approving support for the highway budget
Select Board · Meeting of February 13, 2026
Chesterfield Select Board reviews FY27 budgets; school costs expected to spike sharply. Chair Roger Fuller, alongside Select Board members Trish Colson-Montgomery and Don Willard, examined the administrative and executive budgets line by line on February 13, approving support for the highway budget while noting the police budget appears level-funded. The board flagged anticipated large increases in FY27 school budgets, driven primarily by employee benefits and health insurance costs.
The annual audit cost has risen to $22,500 from $20,000, requiring annual instead of biennial audits due to CDBG grant requirements.
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Source: the Select Board meeting of February 13, 2026, compiled from the official minutes.
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