Granby Annual Town Meeting Adopts $24.5 Million Budget for Fiscal Year 2027

GRANBY -- June 8, 2026, Granby Annual Town Meeting approves $24.5 million operating budget with a floor-added playground safety fix. Voters at the June 8 session unanimously passed a $24,498,884 fiscal year 2027 budget, with no override request, after the Finance Committee's chairman, John Libera, warned that "perhaps the biggest financial risk facing Granby is complacency," pointing to shrinking stabilization funds, a 2017 state order on Forge Pond Dam still unaddressed, and more than 80 percent of free cash going toward operating expenses. The meeting's longest debate ended with a $30,000 floor amendment, sponsored by resident Crystal of 11 Taylor Street, drawing from the general stabilization fund to replace a deteriorated safety surface at East Meadow School's playground, a line the school committee had cut to hold its budget to a 1.29 percent increase. School Committee Chairperson Jennifer Bartos reported health insurance premiums rose more than 30 percent this year and that the district leveraged more than $2 million in grants to offset costs. The meeting also approved a new single-stream recycling contract with USA Waste and Recycling at $670,879, roughly $20,000 more than last year, with new curbside carts set for delivery the week of June 19, and transferred $1,911,256 from free cash to reduce the tax levy.