Billerica Town Meeting focused on efficiencies

After a slow start for the first night of town meeting, department heads and representatives got in full gear, moving more rapidly through the budget, thanks to Moderator Gil Moreira. Instead of reviewing the budget line item by line item, he presented the budget, broken down by departments, which seemed to move things along at a quicker clip.

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Be Honest About Police Budget

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Billerica budget discussion process gets overhaul

BILLERICA -- A new approach to the Town Meeting budget-approval process was in play Tuesday night, one designed to speed up discussion and debate over the line items that comprise next year's proposed $128,673,096 budget.