Town Meeting rejects article to fund salary adjustments

TEWKSBURY — Special Town Meeting was held on Wednesday, May 6 at 7 p.m. at Tewksbury Memo­ri­al High School with 92 voters in attendance.

Article 1 was adopted to transfer funds from ac­counts with a projected surplus to funds with a projected deficit in the current budget year. $280,000 was moved from DPW and town hall salaries due to vacancies to cover police overtime and new school hire healthcare.

Article 2 proposed to take $55,000 from the town’s health budget to fund sa­lary adjustments for the police chief, fire chief, DPW director, building commissioner, and finance director, as well as adjusting the town’s salary schedule to regrade several positions and increase salaries…

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