The spending plan is up for adoption beginning next Monday night, June 1. Town Meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the Louis Oakes Auditiorium with the town portion of the budget coming under review first. If business is not concluded the first night, the school portion of the budget will continue the evening of Tuesday, June 2.

Contacted this week for a broad view of the overall budgeting, Greenville Town Manager John Simko said, “It’s important for people to know that the net amount is going up slightly due to a decrease in the amount of revenue we’re receiving, even though expenses are down by about $25,000. It’s been quite a feat because this is also the first year we’re paying a debt service of $30,000 on the wharf project.”

“Overall,” he said, “we’ve tried to present a very realistic budget.”

In what appears to be a budget nipped and tucked as much as possible throughout given line items, money requests for example have been zeroed out for Christmas lights, clean-up day, and economic development, while others, such as for the Chamber of Commerce, Shaw Public Library, Fourth of July, and memorial services were not completely cut, but reduced by some amount. In other areas, expected revenues from the state, like reimbursements to the town to replace taxes lost from land placed into Tree Growth, were reduced to what is considered to be a realistic figure.

In anticipation of the closure of the dump, which Simko said will be taking up a great deal of time and expense over the coming years, funding requests also shifted somewhat. For example, the funding request for the coming year’s summer road projects is decreased by over $35,000, while the request for landfill operations is increased by about the same amount, representing a shift for the labor and equipment needed to start the stockpiling of what Simko called hundreds of yards of the needed material that will eventually be spread over the landfill. That work is expected to start in earnest this summer.

Other articles up for review include whether or not townspeople wish to raise and appropriate $28,700 from local property taxes to be used for snowmobile trail grooming activities.

While the town in the past has run the program through a combination of some funding it receives from the state and local volunteers, this would be the first time taxpayers would vote to allocate some funding out of their own pockets for a privately-run operation. A recent hearing on the matter garnered a largely positive response with the work done under John and Lauri Waitkus of Greenville ITS Grooming, though some residents were concerned that it might become a burden to local taxpayers.

Selectmen are also offering up three possible options to townspeople for winter sidewalk snow removal. One is to appropriate $82,372 for the purchase, operation and maintenance of a sidewalk clearing machine. A second is to appropriate a lower amount, suggested at $12,000, to hire out the maintenance of winter sidewalks. A third is to keep things the way they are and continue to maintain the sidewalks with the equipment and labor from the town’s Public Works Department.

Selectmen recommend making no change.

On the school side, instructional and administrative accounts show cost of living and benefit increases calculated at three percent. Nips and tucks were made throughout the budget, especially in the areas of purchased professional services, supplies/books & periodicals, and dues and fees. Significant decreases show up in transportation, heating and electric costs, co-curricular instruction, and system administration. Other decreases appear out of legal costs, a cut of one elementary library aid position and of a half custodial position.

The second vote required by the state to validate the school budget will be held on Tuesday, June 9, the same day as town elections. A “yes” vote means you approve the budget that was passed by voters during Town Meeting. A “no” vote means you do not approve of the budget that was passed.