Two meetings in three days were planned in Wiscasset, one to commit taxes and the other to, among other business, consider setting a special town meeting to settle an overdraft in the budget year just ended.

Town Manager Dennis Simmons explained in his report to the board, the town’s year-end unspent balance was $698,570, and revenues were exceeded by $792,221; the lone department that ran over budget was parks and recreation, by $23,982, “due mainly to a large increase in use of the community center and its programs (and due to) explosive costs for supplies, fuels and electricity,” Simmons wrote in the report released Sept. 1.

The department’s revenues surpassed projections by $128,500, but due to the budget overdraft, a special town meeting is needed, Simmons told the board. In the report and email replies to questions, Simmons said the special town meeting he is proposing for 6 p.m. Sept. 20 at Wiscasset Community Center, before the board’s regular meeting, would be to tap the undesignated fund balance for the $23,982. 

Sept. 6, Simmons planned to offer the board a warrant for the special town meeting.

And Sept. 8 at 6 p.m., plans call for selectmen to commit taxes in a meeting at the municipal building and over Zoom, at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89949074298?pwd=UllSQTRtd1RqQ1YvSEV5T0l6UWNsQT09 

Meeting ID: 899 4907 4298

Passcode: 083446

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