SAUGUS — Five weeks and three sessions later, Town Meeting members will take up the final four articles that remain on the Town Warrant on Monday, including the town and school budget.
Votes have already been taken to rezone Eagle Road, so the four remaining property owners can sell their homes, and to approve a zoning bylaw banning the sale of recreational marijuana across town.
The meeting adopted a 3 percent increase in water rates and a bylaw change to regulate discharges to the town’s storm drainage system, designed to protect bodies of water, public health, and the environment.
Up next is the proposed $87.7 million town budget.
The Finance Committee’s budget recommendation includes a $29.7 million school budget for salaries and expenses and $57.9 million for municipal town departments.
Town Meeting members will decide how much cash should be appropriated for the Sewer Enterprise Fund and the Stabilization Fund. The Finance Committee has recommended $5.2 million for the sewer department’s salaries and expenses and the indefinite postponement of the Stabilization Fund allocation.
Money that was borrowed to repair and resurface Hamilton Street has been recommended to be repurposed to reconstruct various streets and sidewalks across town.
