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Excerpt from 1979 Annual Report The special town meeting held on October 29, 1979 dictated that the Budget Committee consider the requests for additional funds for Public Works to cover the negotiated labor agreement and warrant items submitted by the Selectmen for a new aerial ladder truck and construction funds for a new fire station. The appropriate subcommittees and the full Committee devoted several weeks of meetings to these items in addition to conducting the public budget hearings and participating in the special town meeting. The Committee meets on a weekly basis from November through February to review the budget requests forwarded to it by the Selectmen of the Town. In its deliberations, the Committee is guided by the assumption that the citizens will wish to maintain town services at the same level as in the past. Departmental requests which would result in a significant increase or decrease in such services receive particular scrutiny and will ordinarily not be approved by the Committee without compelling and substantial evidence that the requested changes are in fact supported by the majority of the voting citizens of the Town. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.