LIVERMORE – The select board has sent a proposed $1.1 million fiscal 2009 municipal budget to the Budget Committee to review on Thursday.

The spending plan represents $20,000 less than this year’s budget, but will require about $60,000 more in tax dollars due to a drop in anticipated revenues and no carry-over money to bring forward, select board administrative assistant Kurt Schaub said Tuesday.

No money left over

Higher energy costs, a lean budget this year, and more snowstorms last winter were why there was no money from accounts to be brought forward to reduce the tax burden on taxpayers, Schaub said.

Also included in the proposed budget is $25,000 to set aside for a revaluation update with another $25,000 request to go before voters the following year.

“Voters will be asked to consider funding half of a valuation update, which is being proposed as a means of extending the life of our five-year-old full revaluation while maintaining fairness among property assessments,” Schaub said.

The Budget Committee is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 8, at the town office to review the proposal.

Residents in June are expected to consider a warrant article to adopt a comprehensive plan for the town. A public hearing on the document will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, at Brettuns Community Building.

Road map

The proposed plan provides a road map to help the town move into the future, Schaub said. The plan does not include any authority to make changes, he added. An ordinance or other measures would be needed to make any changes, he said, and those are voted on by residents.

The proposal looks at where Livermore is coming from, where it is today, and it makes some projections of where the town might want to be in the future, Schaub said.

Voters will have the final say on the budget and any other warrant articles at the annual town meeting set for 7 p.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Livermore Elementary School.

Schaub also said word was received from town attorney Michael Hodgins that Peter Drown Jr. of Livermore requested the court dismiss his lawsuit challenging the validity of the town’s new dangerous dog ordinance. The suit subsequently was dismissed.

Drown filed a lawsuit last year asking the ordinance be declared null and void due to the town making procedural errors during posting of the warrant for the special town meeting.

Town officials had requested the court order Drown to reimburse the town for $3,000 in legal costs to defend the challenge, but the motion was denied, Schaub said.