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Cuts expected as New Gloucester develops municipal budget

|Ellie Fellers, Special to the Sun Journal| Some positions, library hours on the chopping block Selectmen are calling for across-the-board cuts as they develop a municipal budget for 2020-21, interim […]

|Ellie Fellers, Special to the Sun Journal|


Some positions, library hours on the chopping block

Selectmen are calling for across-the-board cuts as they develop a municipal budget for 2020-21, interim Town Manager Paul First said this week.

A final budget was not made available after Thursday night’s board meeting. The initial proposal presented in January was $3.82 million.

Some of the cuts being considered, First said, include a Parks and Recreation employee position reduced to 35 hours per week, the code enforcement account, the assistant librarian position and the New Gloucester Public Library’s hours of operation. Keep reading