Proposed Mansfield Budget up 3.6 Percent for 2015

Mansfield's municipal budget will increase 3.6 percent in 2015 to a total of about $30.8 million, according to the Sun Chronicle. 

Town Manager Bill Ross, who presented the budget in a draft presentation at Wednesday night's Board of Selectmen meeting, said that is highlights many projects from Mansfield's strategic and capital plan that integrates town and school priorities. 

The budget would go towards, a town-wide telephone system scheduled to go up this summer, street maintenance and improvement, hiring six fire captains and a police officer, new lockers and library furniture at Mansfield High, a new Special Education bus, and WiFi integration in school buildings. Ross said the budget will likely be adjusted many times before it is put up for approval.