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6 | 2016 Annual Report <br />Town Manager <br />Personnel FY15 FY16 <br />Budget <br />Full Time ..................... <br /> <br />....7 .....................................7 <br />Part Time .................... <br /> <br /> <br />1 .....................................1 <br />- <br />Appropriation and Capital Expenditures Committees, and <br />tablished in the Selectmen-Town Manager Act, the Town <br />Manager administers the policies and procedures of the <br />consensus on a balanced budget for consideration by Town <br />Board of Selectmen, enforces bylaws and actions passed by <br />Meeting that addressed many pressing needs and did not <br />Town Meeting, proposes the operating and capital budgets <br />require a Proposition 2-1/2 override (the last Operating <br />and manages the daily operation of all Town departments. <br />- <br />general fund budget totals $199,430,481, an increase of <br />$6,440,989, or 3.3%, over the FY2016 adopted budget. <br />Chart 1 shows the breakdown of the expenditures by use. <br /> by the Board of Selectmen: Carl Valente has <br />- <br />served as Town Manager since July 2005. <br />ects focused primarily on public safety and school im- <br />provements. To support these recommendations, the Board <br />Form of Government <br />of Selectmen recommended, and Town Meeting adopted, <br />the creation of a Capital Projects Stabilization Fund. In <br />form of government dates back to a 1969 Act of the State <br />anticipation of these potential projects, the FY2017 Annu- <br />legislature based on a plan developed by the Town Struc- <br />al Town Meeting appropriated $5,112,434 for the Capital <br />ture of Government Committee. Lexington had previously <br />Projects Stabilization Fund and an additional $1,878,771 <br />Selectmen/Town Manager Act brought major realignment <br />has a balance of approximately $23 million. Table 1 shows <br />of responsibilities including changes in methods of ap- <br />the amounts voted into and out of that fund since FY13. <br />pointment, closer supervision of administrative functions, <br />and centralized control of purchasing. <br />Debt Service Tax Relief, and Other School and Municipal <br />Capital Projects, help alleviate the tax burden on residents. <br />Chart 1: FY2017 Recommended Budget <br /> <br /> <br />