Finance Committee

Sudbury Finance Committee installs new co-chairs and closes a $48,000 vocational education gap. Members unanimously elected Michael Ferrari and Ryan Lynch as co-chairs for FY27, with Michael Joachim stepping aside after four years but staying on the committee.

SUDBURY — June 11, 2026 — Sudbury FinCom defers reorganization, sends co-chairs to new FY28 budget table. With only five of nine members present at gavel, the Finance Committee tabled its chair election and liaison assignments to June 29 and voted 7-0 to send Co-Chairs Michael Joachim and Michael

SUDBURY — April 27, 2026 — Sudbury Finance Committee rejects Select Board chair's appeal to reverse vocational education fund vote. The committee voted 7-1 Monday against reconsidering Article 13, which would create a stabilization fund seeded with $200,000 for a potential future vocational district buy-in, after Select

SUDBURY — April 6, 2026 — Sudbury Finance Committee rejects $500,000 housing repair petition, backs solar canopies. The committee voted 6-1 on April 6 against recommending Article 39, a citizens petition seeking $500,000 from free cash to repair four Sudbury Housing Authority single-family homes, with only member Ryan

SUDBURY — March 30, 2026 — Sudbury Finance Committee backs $575,000 in reserve deposits but pauses on solar canopies. The committee voted 6-2 to recommend Article 11's $300,000 deposit to the Stabilization Fund and Article 12's $275,000 deposit to the Capital Stabilization Fund, with

SUDBURY — March 16, 2026 — Sudbury Finance Committee recommends $131.8M town budget and $2.2M DPW floor replacement, defers Stabilization Fund vote. The committee voted 7-1-1 on March 16 to recommend the FY27 operating budget, with member Henry P. Sorett opposed and John K Baranowsky abstaining. Co-Chair

SUDBURY — March 9, 2026 — Sudbury FinCom defers FY27 warrant votes a week but signals broad support across the package. Co-Chair Michael Ferrari led members through the $131,763,603 operating budget under Article 3, the $1,195,600 town manager's capital budget under Article 4, and roughly

SUDBURY — March 2, 2026 — Sudbury Finance Committee defers FY27 budget vote after final town hearing previews $131.8M operating budget. Town Manager Andy Sheehan and Finance Director Victor Garofalo walked members through a 4 percent guidance increase across all cost centers, a $9.395 million certified free cash balance, and

SUDBURY — February 9, 2026 — Lincoln-Sudbury floats $40.9 million FY27 budget as Sudbury's assessment rises 3.98 percent. Superintendent Andrew Stephens and Finance Director Susan Bottan told the Sudbury Finance Committee on Feb. 9 the plan grows 3.64 percent overall, driven by a 19.77 percent

SUDBURY — February 2, 2026 — Sudbury schools close FY27 gap with circuit-breaker draws, four position cuts and senior-retiree savings. Superintendent Brad Crozier and Business Director Don Sawyer told the Finance Committee on Feb. 2 the district will add three classroom sections for 60 new students at roughly $248,000,