Budget showdown in Rutland: ‘Bare bones’ v. ‘not sustainable’

RUTLAND – The city’s Board of Aldermen cut a bit deeper but big tickets items survived a marathon budget session.
The board Wednesday night adopted a proposed spending plan for the next fiscal year totaling $21,393,763, a figure that will now go on the ballot for voters to decide on this Town Meeting Day, March 6.
The 2019 budget is up 5.8 percent, or about $1 million over last year, officials said.Various numbers were bandied about at the end of the meeting regarding how the propose