Another smoke and mirrors stunt by town council and new Finance Officer. So we move the salaries and pension cost of utility employees from general budget to utility department to get a budget for town acceptable to state regs. By doing so we have an additional charge of 600 dollars a year for each taxed property. If the average tax bill in the town is 10,000 dollars that is a 6% raise. How about we stop playing games and freeze all spending. Give the police and paid fire department a one year contract. Then close the books on spending.