The Shrewsbury Finance Committee reviewed a five-article draft warrant for the December 7 Special Town Meeting, including proposals to exempt police captain and deputy chief positions from civil service and repeal a 32-year age cap on new police and firefighter hires.
Shrewsbury Finance Committee reorganizes, reports $26 million in town reserves. Jim Flynn was elected chair, Milind Kanikar vice chair and committee member David clerk in unanimous 8-0 roll-call votes.
Shrewsbury Finance Committee votes unanimously to tap reserve fund for $113,000 police salary shortfall. The committee approved the transfer at its July 8 meeting, exhausting what remained of the town's fiscal year 2026 reserve fund with two weeks left before the books close on July 15.
Shrewsbury Finance Committee approves $140,000 in reserve fund transfers as fiscal year nears close. The committee voted unanimously on all three transfers at its June 18 meeting, drawing the reserve fund balance from $253,000 down to roughly $113,000 ahead of the June 30 fiscal year-end.
SHREWSBURY -- April 16, 2026, Shrewsbury's Finance Committee deferred a vote on the FY27 operating budget after the School Committee approved a last-minute revised request. Acting Town Manager Keith Baldinger told the
Finance Committee approves library HVAC replacement, opens town meeting hearing. Chair Gene Buddenhagen and the nine-member committee unanimously approved a $50,000 reserve fund transfer for Library HVAC repairs and opened a public hearing on 34 warrant articles for the May 18 Annual Town Meeting.
Shrewsbury's Finance Committee previewed more than two dozen town meeting warrant articles and approved a library HVAC reserve transfer at its April 9 meeting.
Finance Committee completes FY27 departmental budget hearing. The committee unanimously approved minutes of March 17, 2026, and finished its full-day review of departmental requests, hearing from Public Works Director Timothy McInerney on energy and contract pressures, Water and Sewer
SHREWSBURY -- March 21, 2026, Shrewsbury's Finance Committee spent a full Saturday reviewing the town's proposed $169 million fiscal year 2027 municipal budget, with the Department of Public Works, Police, Fire,
Finance Committee reopened its FY27 education budget public hearing on March 19. Erin Boucher, School Committee Chair, and Dr. Joseph Sawyer, Superintendent of Schools, presented the School Committee's recommended $94,631,135 budget, a 4.75 percent increase over FY26, characterized as level-service
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