Canterbury voters will weigh a 2.9% increase to the town operating budget at their meeting Friday.
Wage increases and adding one new town position are largely behind the $94,224 increase, bringing the operating budget up to $3,323,453.
In addition to more than $900,000 in capital expenses on the warrant, the new costs would bump up the town tax rate by $1.04 — or about $312 a year for a home worth $300,000 — to about $7.40. That increase would be in addition to slight increases from the Shaker School District — where an operating budget increase of less than 1% was approved in elections Tuesday.
$400,000 of the proposed capital expense costs is for the purchase new road grader, while around $30,000 would go toward leasing a backhoe and a cemetery expansion.
In town elections Tuesday, residents chose Beth Blair over Calvin Todd to fill the post of outgoing Selectboard Chair Cheryl Gordon in a 332-200 vote.
