Chilmark Select Board Posts Special Town Meeting on Budget Shortfall
Chilmark Select Board posted a Special Town Meeting on a mid-year budget shortfall.
Select Board · Meeting of May 26, 2026
Chilmark Select Board posted a Special Town Meeting on a mid-year budget shortfall. The Select Board and Finance Committee unanimously recommended a warrant article to appropriate $200,000 from available town funds to cover cost overages in legal defense ($120,000), snow and ice removal ($62,105), and cemetery tree damage ($9,490). Town Administrator Timothy R.
Carroll directed the article be funded by $100,000 from available treasury funds and $100,000 from a prior warrant article. The June 29, 2026 Special Town Meeting will consider the appropriation, and Carroll also proposed a legal defense fund for public donations to offset ongoing litigation costs on the Menemsha Pond Board of Health case.
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Source: the Select Board meeting of May 26, 2026, compiled from the official minutes.
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