Board tweaks truck purchase

ORFORD—A proposed 2021 Orford municipal budget is roughly level-funded with last year’s, according to an overview provided by selectmen at a public hearing last week.
Selectboard chair John Adams said the plan for 2021 is approximately $7,000 less than the 2020 budget, despite increases in employee health insurance, wages, and other costs.
“We figured out various ways to hold that down,” he said during a public hearing on Jan. 21 held via teleconferencing software.
The proposed operating budget is $1,158,454.