Bridgewater Finance Committee Approves Five FY26 Budget Transfers Unanimously

BRIDGEWATER — June 17, 2026 — Bridgewater's Finance Committee unanimously approved five end-of-fiscal-year budget transfers at its June 17 meeting, including a $124,000 electricity and gas shortfall for town buildings and an emergency sewer generator purchase moved up from the FY27 capital plan after the existing unit began to fail. A general fund non-wage transfer order covering more than $290,000 in line-item adjustments — the largest in several years, though still well below the nearly $1 million moved in prior cycles — drew discussion about EV charging costs running through town building meters without separate accounting. The meeting's sharpest exchange came over the transfer station enterprise fund, where one committee member said outright, "I just don't think we're sustainable at this point," and flagged uncaptured revenue from recyclable metals; town officials said a formal review is expected before end of summer. The committee also approved the FY27 Community Preservation Act budget, with a CPC representative reporting the fund holds roughly $5.3 million in total balance, $3.2 million of it uncommitted, after the town avoided a projected $3 million CPA expenditure on a hands-on history barn by securing a state grant for that amount.