KENT — The proposed 2015-16 combined education and municipal budget for the town of Kent is $12.7 million, a $404,200 or 3.2 percent increase over the present year.
No proposed mill rate has been set at this time. The next Board of Finance speical meeting to work on the budget is March 24 at 7 p.m. at Kent Town Hall.
The proposed education budget stands at $7.03 million, a $168,279 or 2.4 percent increase over the present year. That figure represents $4.46 million for Kent Center School expenses and an anticipated $2.56 million contribution to Region 1. The Region 1 budget is still a work in progress.
The municipal budget is a proposed 7.4 percent increase or $230,500 over the present year. It includes a $109,500 increase for Public Works, including one new employees and cost of sand and salt and equipment repair.
Also increased is the cost of paramedic contracting, a $19,500 increase in Kent’s hsare of the paramedic cost. Employee increases for non-union town employees and 2 percent for the union highway employees are included.