City council struggling to cut municipal spending as deadline looms

City council struggling to cut municipal spending as deadline looms

VERGENNES — With just under two weeks to go until Vergennes city councilors need to approve spending for the upcoming fiscal year, the seven-member body continued grappling with ways to reduce the proposed $3,843,806.99 budget in the absence of money from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). City councilors spent two-and-a-half hours on Tuesday night combing through the FY27 budget proposal, scouring for and debating areas they can cut back and …