Cuts needed to avoid big increase in 2021 property taxes

Without budget cuts, the town’s 2021 property taxes could jump by as much as 7.24 per cent, according to the latest staff projections.Plans for a budget increase in line with inflation have been derailed by pandemic costs in the range of $9 million, according to Nancy Sully, the town’s treasurer and acting commissioner of corporate services.
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On Tuesday morning, she told a meeting of the town’s budg